Boy, Two, and man killed, pregnant woman wounded in shooting caught on Facebook Live
A movie streamed over Facebook Live shows shooting of 2-year-old and two adults in Chicago.
A movie streamed over Facebook Live shows shooting of 2-year-old and two adults in Chicago.
In a shooting caught on Facebook Live, a 2-year-old boy and a 26-year-old man were killed and a pregnant woman was wounded when a gunman opened fire as they drove down an alley in Lawndale on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.
“Call 911! They killed him. . I have a bullet in my tummy,” the woman screams as she runs from the car and into a house in the two thousand three hundred block of South Kenneth Avenue around 1:30 p.m.
“Please, please, I can’t breathe,” she says. “Oh my God, please don’t, Lord, I can’t go. I can’t go.”
Seconds earlier, the woman had been posting movie on Facebook Live as she drove with her bf at her side and the toddler, Lavontay White Jr., in the backseat. In the movie, the duo are singing along to music when several shots are fired at the car.
Lavontay and the man were both hit in the head, according to police. Superintendent Eddie Johnson said paramedics were able to revive the boy at the scene, but he was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital, as was the man.
Sheneka Hill talks about the loss of her nephew Lavontay White Jr. and her brother Feb. 15, 2017, after a triple shooting the day before in Lawndale. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
Sheneka Hill talks about the loss of her nephew Lavontay White Jr. and her brother Feb. 15, 2017, after a triple shooting the day before in Lawndale. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
The woman, 20, and her fetus were both listed in fair condition at Climb on Sinai Hospital. Family members said the baby was about four months along and was expected to get through.
The woman told police they were driving in the alley when a car blocked them behind an AC Delco Auto Electronics shop. A gunman got out and opened fire, police said.
No one was in custody late Tuesday afternoon, but investigators suspect the man was the intended target. “We have very promising leads, we have movie,” Johnson said. “There’s no doubt in my mind that we’ll find him.”
The boy was the 2nd child to die Tuesday from Chicago gunfire. Takiya Holmes, 11, died Tuesday morning from wounds suffered in a shooting Saturday. A 2nd lady wounded over the weekend, Kanari Gentry Bowers, 12, remained in critical condition and on life support Tuesday.
A 2-year-old boy and a man were fatally shot and a woman was wounded near Ogden and Kostner avenues in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood Feb. 14, 2017.
In the Facebook Live movie, the woman pulls into an alley and then looks to her left as the camera angle dips to face the windshield as gunfire can be heard.
The camera wanks as the woman emerges to hop from the car and run along a fence line as gunfire resumes.
Screaming, the woman emerges to speed past a house and fights to open a gate. She yells for someone as she opens the door and comes in a home.
Once inwards, the camera goes black but the audio can still be heard as the woman screams for help.
A neighbor in his early 50s said he spotted the child bleeding from his abdomen and the man in the car not moving. “The youthfull lady was just hollering about her baby, she had blood from her tummy,” he said.
At the scene, police surrounded an older-model maroon four-door car in the alley. It had come to rest against an metal fence in the alley, its two front doors open.
A man and a 2-year-old boy were fatally shot and a woman was wounded in an attack in the two thousand three hundred block of South Kenneth Avenue in Chicago. Feb. 14, 2017. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
A man and a 2-year-old boy were fatally shot and a woman was wounded in an attack in the two thousand three hundred block of South Kenneth Avenue in Chicago. Feb. 14, 2017. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
The three entrances to the alley were blocked off, as were streets around the scene. Neighbors poked their goes from their porches.
Outside Climb on Sinai Hospital, motorists fought through afternoon rush-hour traffic along Ogden Avenue as news vans parked on the south side of the street, and a TV helicopter buzzed overhead.
At Stroger, family members leisurely arrived via the afternoon. A woman in a pink hat ran up to the ambulance and a man paced outside the emergency room speaking on the phone.
A little before four p.m., family members and friends in a large group stood outside the hospital, some hugging each other, when a woman all of a sudden ran across the parking lot in tears. Two people ran after her and hugged her as she shouted.
At Climb on Sinai, family members of the woman gathered for the latest on her condition.
Relatives said a bullet was lodged under the skin of her abdomen and doctors were attempting to determine whether or not they can eliminate it securely.
Lavontay White Jr., Two, was shot and killed while railing in the backseat of a car on Feb. 14, 2017, in the Lawndale neighborhood.
Lavontay White Jr., Two, was shot and killed while railing in the backseat of a car on Feb. 14, 2017, in the Lawndale neighborhood.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel released a statement calling again for “meaningful gun control” and harsher sentencing for people who commit crimes with guns.
“Every parent, regardless of where they live, should be able to take their child for a walk to the park or a rail in the car. These are normal rites of passage of childhood,” Emanuel said in the statement.
“These shootings must be a turning point for our city. Anyone with information about these crimes owes it to the families of these children to come forward.”
The Chicago Tribune’s Elyssa Cherney and Liam Ford contributed.