CHICAGO — A 16-year-old boy who was shot on his way to school Monday morning showed up to class anyway — until calling his mom to let her know he'd been shot 30 minutes later, police said.
At 7:47 a.m., the boy was walking to school in the 7800 block of South Trumbull Avenue when a man approached him from behind and fired shots as the boy ran, police said.
He fled to Goode STEM Academy, 7651 S. Homan Ave., according to the Chicago Tribune. The school's principal declined comment Monday. A CPS spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.
The bullet went through the boy's thigh, but he made his way to school and waited about a half-hour before calling his mother and saying he had been shot, police said. The mother then called police.
The teen was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in good condition, police said.
Two police cars remained outside the school hours after the shooting Monday. A man who lives on the block where the shooting occurred said he didn't hear anything and only learned of the shooting after his kids told him about it.
"This is a quiet area but it's been going down hill," said the man who asked not to be named. "I mean, there's a foreclosed home over there but we have a block club.
"It's not the people that live here," he said. "It's the ones that come here or come through here. Like, targeting a kid on the way to school? Come on."
Police described the shooter as a 20-year-old, 5-foot-6 black man wearing a black puffy coat and gray joggers.
Further information was not immediately available.
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