CHICAGO — An 8-year-old girl and a 40-year-old woman were wounded in an Austin shooting Sunday night, according to police.
They were crossing the street in the 1600 block of North Major Avenue at 7:50 p.m. Sunday when shots rang out, said Officer Michelle Tannehill, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.
The girl was shot in her right arm and the woman was shot in her left hand, Tannehill said. They managed to get themselves to West Suburban Hospital, where the girl was listed in good condition. Police did not have the woman's condition.
The shooting victims were not the intended targets, according to police.
No arrests have been made.
The Sunday shooting continues a dark trend in the city of young children being shot.
A 6-year-old girl was shot in Pullman last weekend, police said, the most recent case of a child shot after Sunday's attack in Austin.
She was one of at least four 6-year-old girls shot in Chicago this summer.
A girl was shot along with her uncle, who died, in Park Manor in early August. In mid-July, a 6-year-old girl playing near her Englewood home was struck when she was caught in a crossfire of bullets.
Another 6-year-old girl was shot in Logan Square in June.
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