WOODLAWN — A 13-month-old boy being pushed in a stroller in Woodlawn Saturday afternoon was hit and killed by a car full of people who police believe might have been driving away from a shooting.
Witnesses told reporters the car ran down the stroller and kept going before later crashing. The people in the car got out and ran away, but some of them are reportedly in custody now.
The boy, Dillan Harris, was rushed to a hospital, but doctors couldn't save him.
The mother of a 10-month-old boy is consoled after he was killed by a hit and run driver. (DNAinfo/Devlin Brown)
Dillan was in the 6300 block of South Ellis Avenue when it happened, police said. A crumpled stroller could be seen in the grass following the tragedy, according to ABC7.
Police say the car might have been fleeing a 1:40 p.m. Saturday shooting in the 7700 block of South Kingston Avenue.
In that shooting, bullets hit a man in the back and left hip. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition, according to Officer Bari Lemmon, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.
Shortly afterward, Lemmon said, a car containing the "possible offenders" from the shooting struck the child, Lemmon said.
The child was brought to Comer's Children's Hospital and was pronounced dead, Lemmon said.
An officer stands guard over the stroller that a 13-month-old was in when he was struck and killed. (DNAinfo/Devlin Brown)
Neither the Cook County Medical Examiner nor police had further information about the child was not immediately available.
Lemmon could not confirm whether the suspects had been taken into custody.
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