Baby among 3 shot on Chicago's North Side; suspects in custody

CHICAGO - Three people, including a 5-month-old boy, were shot Thursday in Old Town on the North Side.

The shooting happened about 7 p.m. in the 1300 block of North Hudson Avenue, First Deputy Supt. Eric Carter said during a brief news conference outside Lurie Children’s Hospital.

A 5-month-old boy was grazed in the temple and taken taken to Lurie, where he was stabilized and “resting comfortably,” Carter said. Two men, 19 and 25, were also shot; both were stabilized at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Carter said officers responded to the scene and quickly received descriptions of a shooter and a vehicle.

After broadcasting those descriptions, officers tracked the vehicle to the intersection of Princeton Avenue and 37th Street and took two people into custody without incident, Carter said, noting that investigators are looking into whether another person was inside the vehicle at the time of the shooting. Two weapons were recovered during the arrest.