A city official said a grandmother's quick thinking helped save her grandson's life.
A grandmother's quick thinking helped save her 4-year-old grandson's life, a city official said.A Chicago shooting near Humboldt Park left a 4-year-old boy critically injured in the 3300 block of West North Avenue, the police department said.A 4-year-old boy was shot and critically injured inside a vehicle in Chicago on Tuesday, police said."It's unbelievable that we still have to suffer this kind of violence in our city," Maria Ugarte, who lives in the area, said.
She said, thankfully, her grandson is out of surgery, and while he is still in critical condition, she said his condition is stabilized. "There were two cars that were hit by the shooting. One was a white vehicle with two men in it. They did not get hit," Alderperson Jessie Fuentes, a city official, said. "And then, there was another vehicle with a grandmother and a grandson."
Fuentes added that it was the grandmother's quick thinking that helped save her grandson's life. After the shooting, she drove the boy to a nearby hospital.
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