A 4-year-old boy and an 18-year-old were injured in a shooting Friday night on the Far South Side, according to Chicago police.
The shooting occurred around 11:30 p.m. in the 8600 block of South Honore Street in the Gresham neighborhood, police said. The woman and child were standing outside when a man inside a passing black Dodge Challenger fired shots at them.
The boy was shot in the leg and taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park in good condition, police said.
The woman was shot in the lower backside and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in good condition, police said.
The victims were likely not the intended target, police said. No arrests have been made.
Crime scene tape stretched across the one-way residential street. At least 15 evidence markers were placed on the road and sidewalk. At least one sedan inside the scene had bullet holes.
Neighbors, who asked not to be named out of fear of retaliation, said they have had issues with the house where the shooting occurred. The majority of the people who live on the block are retirees and own their homes, but the neighbors on the corner are renters who moved in about three years ago.
The president of the block club tried to talk to the residents of the home shortly after they moved in about the block’s rules, but they were resistant and rude, neighbors said.
“It’s been a mess ever since,” a neighbor said.
“I want them to leave tomorrow,” another said.
The day before the shooting, neighbors said people were outside the home playing music late into the night and about six young kids were outside playing. The police came after a neighbor called for a noise disturbance, neighbors said.
One neighbor who has lived on the block for more than 25 years said this was the first shooting that she’s known to occur on the block since she’s moved in. There are shootings on nearby blocks, but not there, she said.
“It’s terrible,” she said. “We’ve never had this kind of action.”
Neighbors said they heard eight to 10 consecutive shots. One neighbor came outside after she heard the shots, and said she saw someone carrying a child who looked limp and cried out for someone to call an ambulance.
“It’s a tragedy, but they’re hanging outside of their house like no shame — like it’s just another day,” she said.
Another neighbor also said that everyone on the block knows one another except for the house on the corner where the shooting occurred. Neighbors don’t know much about them and keep their distance, but the neighbor said he had recently brought them over some of his old children bikes because he often saw young kids out front.
