CHICAGO — A 15-year-old boy riding in a car was wounded Friday afternoon after shots were fired from two other vehicles.
The shooting was in the 2400 block of South Michigan Avenue, two blocks from McCormick Place at 4:35 p.m., police said.
People in two other cars were having an argument when shots were fired from at least one of them, police said.
The boy was grazed in his back and taken to Mercy Hospital, a block away, where he was listed in good condition.
No arrests have been made.
The boy's mother told ABC7 said she and her son were leaving a nearby Burger King when the family car was hit by bullets, shattering its windows.
Her son "slumped over and said, 'Mom, I'm burning,' she said.
"And I said, 'You're burning?' And I just jumped. I drove out, I gunned it down, and I got out of the car," she said.
"Mom, I'm burning." Boy grazed by stray bullet as gunfire erupts in South Loop restaurant parking lot. https://t.co/3FVazWf0RR pic.twitter.com/YMa4bjPLj2
— Eric Horng (@EricHorngABC7) April 15, 2017
WGN identified the boy as a student at National Teachers Academy at 55 W. Cermak Road.
