A one-year-old girl was shot in the head inside a Marquette Park home overnight, and Chicago police took a man into custody at the scene after investigators found evidence that contradicted the initial report that a bullet had come through a window.
Police initially responded to a report that the girl had been struck by a bullet that came through a window of the home in the 6400 block of South Mozart Street shortly after midnight. They found the girl with a gunshot wound to her head, but no bullet holes in the windows. And, troublingly, there were three shell casings in the apartment, an officer said.
As EMS took the girl to Comer Children’s Hospital in critical condition, cops went to an upstairs apartment where they found a firearm, leading to the suspect’s arrest, according to a preliminary CPD report.
Police have not released additional details about the man, including his relationship to the girl.
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