His grandfather heard the shot and rushed his grandson to Norwegian Hospital before he was transferred to Mount Sinai, prosecutors and police said. He continued: “I’m sure that the defendant didn’t mean for this to happen, but that’s what happens when people have guns that shouldn’t have guns”. Investigators are trying to trace the gun.
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“The gun was purchased off the street, it was kept loaded and it was wrapped in pajama trousers on top of the refrigerator”, said DiBella. In fact, he also revealed that it was Santiago who had told the elder boy about the gun and even showed the gun to the boy.
Santiago is due in bond court today.
“He kept the gun for protection because he was a former gang member who snitched on a gang member in a murder trial”, the Chicago Tribune reported.
“This is the ultimate tragedy”, Cook County Judge James Brown said before setting Santiago’s bail at $75,000.
A man in Chicago has been charged with felony child endangerment after his 6-year-old son shot and killed his 3-year-old brother. The boy fired the weapon at Eian, and he was shot in the head.
LaSalle said he did not know that Santiago had a gun in the home, or he would never have let the boys near it. “Parents should never have guns in the house, especially when they have got boys”, he said. Guglielmi said the gun was not legally registered. “We see this happen over and over and over again”. In 2015 alone, more than 5,000 illegal guns were seized from Chicago, he added.
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Chicago also has more homicides than any city in the nation, and the number this year has climbed, with department statistics showing there were 370 homicides as of October 4, compared to 306 for the same period last year. The number of shooting incidents has climbed during the same period to 1,870 from 1,581.
