18 Hurt, 5-Month-Old Girl Among 4 Dead in Shootings Across Chicago: Police

Chicago police work the scene where a 5-month-old girl was shot and killed in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago on June 24, 2022. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Officials in Chicago said that at least 18 people were shot, including four deaths, across the city over the weekend.

A 5-month-old girl was among those who were fatally shot, authorities confirmed on June 26 to local media.

The infant, whose name wasn’t released, was shot while in the back seat of a car on Chicago’s South Side on June 24, police said.

An unknown vehicle approached the car the infant was in, and someone inside the second vehicle opened fire as the father, who was driving, pulled the car over to the side of the road after the infant started crying, a witness said.

The infant, who was struck in the head, was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead, authorities told ABC7.

“I spoke with this mother. Yes, she’s very distraught,” crisis responder Andrew Holmes told the outlet. “That’s a 5-month-old baby. Nine months she carried that baby, nourished that baby. And it take a [expletive] fool to discharge that weapon and take baby’s life.

“I hope you don’t have no children yourself,” Holmes continued, speaking to the suspect or suspects. “Because if you do, you shouldn’t sleep at night, you should just turn yourself here knowing you got to look at your child every night. And you done take this lady’s child. The baby rested right now, but ain’t gonna be no peace with that family the rest of their life.”

No suspects have been identified, and no arrests have been made.

“We’re not going to stand for this in this city,” Holmes told FOX32. “We need this city to do what we got to do to put eyes on this young lady, on this driver until both of them have been arrested because this is disgusting, this is a disgrace, this is as low as you can get.”

On June 26, a 32-year-old male was fatally shot as he exited his car in the Little Italy neighborhood at around 4:30 a.m., police told ABC7. He was shot twice in the chest, and was pronounced dead at a local hospital, according to officials.

On June 24, a 21-year-old man was fatally shot in Longwood Manor, authorities said. He was found shot in the 9600 block of South Princeton Avenue at around 11:35 p.m.; he was transported to a hospital, where he died, police said.

About an hour earlier, a 45-year-old male was found dead of a gunshot wound along South Champlain Avenue, police said.