CHICAGO (AP) — A 19-year-old guy has been arrested within the demise of a 7-year-old boy who was once struck by means of a stray bullet whilst washing his palms in the toilet of his circle of relatives’s westside Chicago house.
Joseph Serrano of Chicago was once charged Thursday with first-degree homicide, consistent with police.
Akeem Briscoe was once it appears getting in a position for mattress on Oct. 26 when somebody fired a couple of photographs in a close-by alley and a bullet struck the kid within the stomach, consistent with police.
He later died at a clinic.
Shell casings have been discovered within the alley and detectives tested personal video photos from the realm within the hopes of figuring out who fired the photographs.
Investigators later realized that photographs have been fired from one workforce of folks at any other workforce in a automobile within the alley, police stated.
“They shoot at that workforce; clearly the bullet misses that workforce,” Chicago Police Leader of Detectives Brendan Deenihan stated. “There was once no one struck in that workforce, and the bullet is going during the window, hanging the 7-year-old.”
A 16-year-old boy additionally was once charged Tuesday with first-degree homicide. The Prepare dinner County State’s Legal professional’s workplace stated a 3rd suspect was once arrested, however now not but charged.