A 13-year-old boy was left in critical condition after a shooting in Chicago's South Side on Monday, marking another episode of violence in a city grappling with gun-related crimes. The shooting took place in the South Shore neighborhood's 7400 block of South Kenwood Avenue around 2:20 p.m., according to the Chicago Tribune.
The young victim was in an alley when two unidentified men approached him and shot him three times before fleeing the scene, police said and now the boy, whose name has not been released, was transported to Comer Children's Hospital as detectives from Area One delve into the investigation. No arrests have been made in relation to the shooting, and the assailants remain at large with scant leads on their whereabouts or motives, the Chicago police department is left piecing together the fragments of this senseless act of violence.
As reported by ABC 7 Chicago, the circumstances surrounding the shooting remain unclear, and the Chicago Police Department urges anyone with information to come forward to aid in the investigation. The incident adds another grim statistic to Chicago's ongoing struggle with shootings, which disproportionately affect young people in the city's South Side communities.
