Oct 08, 2024
Gunfire from the street smashed through a West Pullman home, critically wounding a 7-year-old boy and a 27-year-old man Monday night. A man, 27, and boy, 7, were in a residence in the 11600 block of South Yale Avenue at 9:06 p.m. when someone inside a white Audi sedan on the street fired shots, police said. The 7-year-old was shot in the back and grazed on his head.He was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in critical condition; the man was shot multiple times in the chest and arm and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn also in critical condition.Pastor Donovan Price went to the scene to comfort the boy's mother shortly after the attack and was bothered that the two were shot in a home meant to be a "place to escape.""Even in your home, you're still not safe," Price said. "It really kind of [makes] you wonder: Where do you put your hope? Where's the opportunity to get away from the trauma?" "It was a school night ... You just don’t expect that, our children should not have to worry about those type of things," Price added. "They should worry about getting their homework done, not surviving." Family and community healing as well as an increased confidence in police are a result of arrests being made in shootings both fatal and nonfatal throughout the city, according to Price. "[Justice] helps more than people would think it does," Price said. Area Two detectives are investigating. No one is in custody.
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