Authorities Confirm Parents’ Gun Struggle Led To Toddler Being Shot In The Head

Chicago police confirmed that a 1-year-old boy’s gunshot wound to the head was not from a stray bullet but was caused by his parents struggling over a gun.

According to The Chicago Tribune, the Chicago police reported a man walking into Weiss Memorial Hospital just before 7:40 P.M. on Monday with a toddler suffering from a gunshot wound to the head and said that a shooting took place nearby.

The man claimed that an unknown gunman opened fire at 800 West Leland Avenue but hit the child instead.

Shortly after, it was confirmed that the man is the child’s father and that the child’s injury happened after his parents fought over a gun and it went off in their Uptown apartment on Monday evening.

Before the incident was validated , the investigators could neither locate a crime scene nor verify basic details of the shooting.

Guglielmi said that officers eventually found blood in an elevator at the father’s apartment building at 800 West Eastwood Avenue, as well as about one spent shell casing and blood in the kitchen and the living room of the apartment.

“A bullet ricocheted and hit the boy,” Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.

Guglielmi added that the bullet did not penetrate the child’s skull and the victim was listed in serious but stable condition at Lurie Children’s Hospital.

Detectives obtained surveillance videos from the building but did not know what it showed. On Tuesday morning, police questioned the victim’s parents and no cases have been filed yet.