A 14-year-old girl was critically wounded in a shooting early Saturday in Chicago’s South Austin neighborhood, according to ABC7 Chicago.
Police said officers responded just before 2:30 a.m. to the 300 block of South Laramie Avenue, where they found a car with multiple bullet holes and the girl nearby. She had been shot in the face and chest, ABC7 reported. The Chicago Fire Department treated her at the scene before she was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.
What remains unknown
Area Four detectives are investigating, but authorities have not publicly explained what led to the shooting. No suspect description or other details about the circumstances were available in the cited report. The bullet-damaged car’s connection to the shooting also has not been established publicly.
A separate South Austin shooting involving teenagers
The neighborhood has seen other serious shootings involving young people, but those incidents should not be treated as evidence that they are connected. In a separate case, a shooting on Aug. 18 in the 200 block of South Central Avenue wounded three teenagers; one 16-year-old later died, according to ABC7 Chicago. NBC Chicago reported that police said a person in a dark-colored sedan fired at people standing outside. That case occurred at a different location and involved different reported circumstances from the South Laramie Avenue shooting.
Broader Chicago context
The Chicago Tribune’s 2026 homicide tracker reported 304 people slain in Chicago, with data updated through Sept. 11. That citywide figure provides scale but does not measure nonfatal shootings, identify the circumstances of this case, or establish a trend specific to South Austin.
The City of Chicago’s Violence Prevention page identifies street outreach and victim services among the violence-prevention programs it supports or evaluates. Those city programs are broader community resources and have not been linked publicly to the South Laramie investigation.
