At least 13 shot, including 3 children, in Chicago drive-by shooting on Halloween, police say - NBC News

At slightest 13 radical were changeable successful a drive-by shooting successful Chicago connected Monday night, constabulary said, including a 3-year-old and 2 different children.

No deaths were reported successful transportation with the shooting. The information of those wounded ranged from captious to not life-threatening, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said astatine a quality conference. An further idiosyncratic was struck by a conveyance portion attempting to flight the scene, helium said.

Police had earlier said arsenic galore arsenic 14 radical were shot, but said successful a aboriginal connection that 13 had been shot.

The unit astatine the intersection of California Avenue and Polk Street astatine astir 9:30 p.m. successful the country of Garfield Park was partially captured connected surveillance video, constabulary said.

“We cognize it’s a drive-by. We cognize it happens successful conscionable a fewer seconds,” Brown said. “It begins and past it’s over, astir 3 seconds the car is pulling retired aft driving by and shooting randomly, really, into the crowd.”

A vigil was being held astatine the country with a balloon merchandise astatine the time, but determination could person been different reasons that immoderate of the radical were gathered there, Brown said.

He said that a motive was unknown, nary offender has been identified, and constabulary are not alert of immoderate conflicts connected that corner, though detectives volition beryllium conducting interviews.

As of aboriginal Tuesday morning, constabulary said nary arrests had been made successful transportation with the incident, arsenic detectives continued to investigate.

The 3 children injured were 3 years old, 11 and 13, Brown said. All the different victims were adults, helium said.

There could beryllium 2 shooters, Brown said, though helium stressed the accusation is preliminary.