A 1-year-old girl was shot in the back of the head while sitting in a car seat inside a South Side Chicago apartment, and two people are now in custody in connection with the shooting. Police sources say the girl was in the living room when someone inside the apartment opened fire with a handgun, and the shots struck her.
What Police Sources Are Saying
According to CBS News, the toddler was sitting in her car seat in the living room of the apartment when a person inside fired the gun, and the shots hit her in the back of the head. The outlet's report is attributed to a police source, and it remains the only account of how the shooting unfolded. Two people are in custody, though the police-sourced information on that detail carries lower confidence than the account of the shooting itself, per the same report.
Beyond the police source's description of the girl's position in the living room and the handgun fired inside the apartment, the report does not detail who fired the shots or what led up to them. The exact location within the South Side, the identities of those in custody, and whether they have been arrested or charged were not addressed in the available reporting. The girl's current medical condition and treatment have also not been detailed.
A Painful Echo From the Suburbs
The circumstances recall a 2016 case in south suburban Riverdale, where a 1-year-old boy was left in critical condition after being shot in the head inside an apartment, as reported by wgntv.com. In that incident, Riverdale police said they found a gun at the scene and were conducting interviews. A neighbor told the station that the children in the home may have gotten access to a gun and that it discharged during a struggle over it, adding that four children were reportedly home at the time, according to neighbors cited in the same report.
That Riverdale case remains a separate, years-old incident with its own unresolved details, and no connection between it and the South Side shooting has been established. It stands only as a grim precedent for how quickly a firearm inside a home can turn deadly for a child too young to understand the danger. As the South Side case develops, the core facts confirmed so far are limited: a 1-year-old girl shot in the head, two people in custody, and a police account that places her in a car seat in her own living room when the shooting happened.
