Cops: Gunman shouts, 'What you be about?' before shooting kid, 7, Seven-year-old Elijah Dace was strolling home from school with his sibling and sister in Morgan Park on Wednesday evening when two shooters hopped out from a back road, shouted, "What you be about?" and opened discharge, as indicated by police.
Elijah ran yet acknowledged he had been shot, police said. The projectile had experienced his shoulder.The kid was taken to Comer Children's Hospital, where a representative said he was recorded in great condition Thursday morning.Police said they were scrutinizing a kid who was 16 or 17, yet he was being uncooperative. They accept the shooters were posse individuals however don't think the kid was the objective.
Elijah had been strolling home from Shoop Elementary School, where he is a first-grader, when he was shot in the 10900 square of South Loomis Street around 3:20 p.m., police said. He was around two squares from his home.
The kid endured an injury to his right shoulder and was taken by rescue vehicle to Comer. The shooters ran south of Loomis, police said. Six 9 mm shell housings were recouped at the scene.The neighborhood is comprised of a blend of homes, some empty and blocked, some with manicured gardens. A few homes had "Quit Killing" and "We call police" signs.
Neighbor James Stevenson portrayed Elijah as "only a child" who loves riding his bike, even in icy climate.
Stevenson said he and different neighbors call the kid "Stewie," the toon character from the mainstream TV show "Family Guy," on the grounds that they think Elijah looks like him.
"Attractive little gentleman," said Stevenson, 51.About two weeks prior, Elijah approached Stevenson's home for around 10 minutes to eat snacks and watch a Bulls playoff diversion.
"I can put it to you like that. Little Elijah is welcome in every house," said Stevenson. "He's, similar to, that sort of kid in the area."
On Wednesday, Stevenson was stunned to discover that Elijah had been shot. Stevenson was watching news scope of the shooting, yet he didn't know the personality of the casualty until he talked with different neighbors who said, "That was Stewie!"
"I've never experienced...had a youngster in my family shot, so I don't know how a man would feel," Stevenson said Thursday morning outside the kid's far South Side home, around two squares from where the shooting happened. "At the same time, definitely, I'm getting passionate now, considering that."
At the point when asked whether the area is a protected spot for a kid to be riding his bike, Stevenson answered, "Guess what? Frankly, yes and no.
"It's been more regrettable, however its showing signs of improvement," clarified Stevenson, who said he's lived close to kid's home subsequent to the 1960s. "That is the most ideal approach to total it up.
"Definitely, its improving than it has been in the course of recent years, two years," Stevenson proceeded, "Similarly as less shooting. The shooting has declined fairly. At the same time, that is still, I mean, what would you be able to say?"
Elijah ran yet acknowledged he had been shot, police said. The projectile had experienced his shoulder.The kid was taken to Comer Children's Hospital, where a representative said he was recorded in great condition Thursday morning.Police said they were scrutinizing a kid who was 16 or 17, yet he was being uncooperative. They accept the shooters were posse individuals however don't think the kid was the objective.
Elijah had been strolling home from Shoop Elementary School, where he is a first-grader, when he was shot in the 10900 square of South Loomis Street around 3:20 p.m., police said. He was around two squares from his home.
The kid endured an injury to his right shoulder and was taken by rescue vehicle to Comer. The shooters ran south of Loomis, police said. Six 9 mm shell housings were recouped at the scene.The neighborhood is comprised of a blend of homes, some empty and blocked, some with manicured gardens. A few homes had "Quit Killing" and "We call police" signs.
Neighbor James Stevenson portrayed Elijah as "only a child" who loves riding his bike, even in icy climate.
Stevenson said he and different neighbors call the kid "Stewie," the toon character from the mainstream TV show "Family Guy," on the grounds that they think Elijah looks like him.
"Attractive little gentleman," said Stevenson, 51.About two weeks prior, Elijah approached Stevenson's home for around 10 minutes to eat snacks and watch a Bulls playoff diversion.
"I can put it to you like that. Little Elijah is welcome in every house," said Stevenson. "He's, similar to, that sort of kid in the area."
On Wednesday, Stevenson was stunned to discover that Elijah had been shot. Stevenson was watching news scope of the shooting, yet he didn't know the personality of the casualty until he talked with different neighbors who said, "That was Stewie!"
"I've never experienced...had a youngster in my family shot, so I don't know how a man would feel," Stevenson said Thursday morning outside the kid's far South Side home, around two squares from where the shooting happened. "At the same time, definitely, I'm getting passionate now, considering that."
At the point when asked whether the area is a protected spot for a kid to be riding his bike, Stevenson answered, "Guess what? Frankly, yes and no.
"It's been more regrettable, however its showing signs of improvement," clarified Stevenson, who said he's lived close to kid's home subsequent to the 1960s. "That is the most ideal approach to total it up.
"Definitely, its improving than it has been in the course of recent years, two years," Stevenson proceeded, "Similarly as less shooting. The shooting has declined fairly. At the same time, that is still, I mean, what would you be able to say?"
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