A man has been charged with attempted murder after a toddler and his mother were shot through a window of their apartment in Austin on the West Side.
Michael Williams, 30, is also facing aggravated battery and felony gun charges, according to Chicago police.
Around 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, a 30-year-old woman was in a garden unit apartment in the 5200 block of West Congress Parkway with her 1-year-old son when someone fired shots through a window, police said.
She was grazed by a bullet, and the boy was struck twice in the legs. They were taken to Stroger Hospital, where the woman was in good condition and the boy’s was stabilized, police said.
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Williams was arrested about 1:20 a.m. the following day in the 7200 block of North Sharidan Road. He was due in bond court Thursday.
