WOODLAWN — Melony Irving didn't have far to walk home Sunday.
The 10-year-old was with a friend and was on her way back to her grandmother's house from the large vacant lot across the street where they were playing Sunday, a relative said.
The girls stopped in front of a neighbor's house, where two people were out on the porch, according to police and a relative.
Then shots rang out.
"She seen the gun and got to running," said James Buchanan, Melony's cousin. "Thank God it only grazed her."
Around 12:50 p.m. Sunday, a man came from the vacant lot, that takes up much of the north side of the 1400 block of East 66th Place, and opened fire on the group, according to Officer Nicole Trainor, Chicago Police Spokeswoman.
Melony was one of three shot, according to police and witnesses. Buchanan said a stray bullet hit a tree before grazing Melony in her neck. She was taken to Comer Children's hospital in good condition, and was released by Monday morning, Buchanan said.
"She's good," Buchanan said of Melony's condition. "She got lucky, really."
A 19-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman were also injured in the shooting, police and witnesses said.
The man was shot in his chest and brought to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition, police said.
The woman was shot in her right calf and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, police said. Police said she was "stable" but did not have her condition.
Neither Melony nor the 18-year-old woman were the intended target of the shooting, Trainor said. No arrests have been made.
Melony had been staying with her grandmother for a while when the shooting happened Sunday, Buchanan said. He was over at his grandmother's Monday to help console the family.
'We're sad, man," he said. "If that bullet hit her anywhere else, she could have lost her life."
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