A 13-month-old boy sitting in a stroller was killed Saturday after being hit by car full of men who police believe were fleeing the scene of a shooting in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood.
Police say they were originally called to the 7700 block of South Kingston in the city's South Shore when a man was shot at about 1:45 p.m. The victim was transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and is listed in critical condition.
After the shooting the three gunmen took off in a vehicle, witnesses and police say, and during their attempt to flee from officers crashed into a group of people at the intersection of 63rd and Ellis, striking an infant who was with his mother.
One witness, Ronald Harty, told NBC Chicago he saw a maroon car slam into a bus stop, where the mother and baby were waiting for the bus with a group of people. He says the mother was distraught. The baby, he said, "did not look good," after being struck.
Another witness said the family was walking on a sidewalk at the time, and when the car tried to make a quick turn on the corner of the intersection, it skidded into the family.
The boy was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, Chicago fire officials said, where he was pronounced dead.
A woman, assumed to be the boy's mother, could be seen wailing on the ground in distress as emergency responders tried to calm her down after the incident.
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As they tried to close the doors of the ambulance taking away the baby, she could be seen getting up and running towards the vehicle in what looked like a grief-stricken plea not to take away her baby. A police officer held her back.
Police have two of the offenders in custody, according to officials.
