Early Friday morning, a 16-year-old boy became the latest victim of gun violence in Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the shooting occurred around 1:15 a.m. on the 100 block of North Pulaski Road. Police reports indicate that while casually walking on the sidewalk, the teenager was shot in the hand.
After the incident, the victim was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. His condition was described as good despite the gunfire injuries sustained. So far, the search for the person responsible has yet to conclude in any arrests, with no one in custody as of the latest updates. With the shooter at large, detectives from the Area Four investigations unit are probing the matter, trying to unravel the sequence of events that led to the young boy being injured.
CBS News Chicago reports that the teen's wound was specifically a gunshot to his left hand. After being shot, it was said that the victim was dropped off at the hospital, which suggests the possibility of a companion or a good Samaritan intervening in the aftermath of the shooting. The detectives working on the case are likely to delve into the nature of this drop-off as they work to fill in the details of what transpired on that fateful sidewalk.
