CHICAGO — A 14-year-old boy was in fair condition after he was shot three times during a drive-by shooting early Thursday, the seventh child to have been shot in the city in less than 24 hours — including a 15-year-old boy who was killed and a 6-year-old boy who was in critical condition — according to Chicago police.
Authorities were called to the 8200 block of South Yates Boulevard in the South Chicago neighborhood around 6:45 a.m. after getting reports a teenager had been walking in the area when a gunman in a green SUV, possibly a Jaguar, opened fire, striking the child in the upper abdomen, hip and shoulder, according to an online media notification from Chicago police. The green SUV continued traveling north after the shooting and no arrests had been made as of noon Thursday.
The child was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center in a private vehicle and “dropped off,” according to police. He had been listed in fair condition, authorities said.
