A 23-year-old father been charged with a shooting that left his 9-month-old daughter critically wounded in the Washington Park neighborhood earlier this week on the South Side.
Kenneth Mosby, 23, faces counts of attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm, Chicago police announced on Saturday.
The shooting happened just before 11 p.m. Tuesday when the mother of the infant girl went into a McDonald’s at 70 E. Garfield Blvd. and left the child in the car with her boyfriend, according to police.
The fast food restaurant’s surveillance cameras recorded a muzzle flash while Mosby was in the car with his daughter, according to court records. The girl was shot once, leaving wounds below her right ear and above her left eyebrow.
When the mother came out and got into the driver’s seat, she peered into her rearview mirror and spotted blood coming from the baby’s nose, a police report said.
The woman then got out of her car, opened the back door and saw the baby was bleeding “profusely,” so she jumped behind the wheel and drove to Comer Children’s Hospital, where was admitted in critical condition, according to the report.
Mosby, a South Chicago resident, was arrested Thursday in the 2100 block of South First Avenue in west suburban Maywood. Police didn’t share details on what connected him to the attack and court records did not provide additional details about the shooting.
Judge Mary Marubio ordered Mosby held in custody while the case continues on public safety grounds, records show. He was due back in court Dec. 6.
