Hours after the shooting, the 2-year-old used his limited vocabulary to try to describe what happened.
"Pow, pow," he said to his mother, and then spoke his friend's name. Police said he shot and wounded his 4-year-old playmate while under the care of the 2-year-old's grandmother.
The grandmother had been caring for three children Monday morning and was busy with the youngest of them, an infant, when she heard a popping noise in the next room. The 2-year-old went to his grandmother upset, prompting her to investigate.
Police said the 4-year-old was shot in the right side and was in stable but guarded condition in the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital Monday night.
The 2-year-old's uncle, Juan Ramirez, 21, who lives downstairs in the two-flat in the 2200 block of South Drake Avenue, was charged with unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, felony defacement of a firearm and misdemeanor "firearm child protection," said police news affairs Officer Carlos Herrera. The weapon's serial number had been scraped away, he said.
Chicago Tribune
Boy uses his limited vocabulary to describe what happened
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