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| Credits: DNAInfo |
A relative of a 4-year-old boy who was shot in Woodlawn recounted the chaos around the shooting, saying Wednesday that the family first thought the gunshots were fireworks.
At 9:10 p.m., someone pulled up to the Parkway Gardens housing complex in a dark-colored sedan and fired into a crowd standing in front of a building, according to Officer Laura Amezaga, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.
Kavan Collins, 4, was walking with his mom and brother in the complex when they heard loud pops, family said.
"At first they didn't think it was nothing, 'cause boys were letting off fireworks there," said Magen Willis, who identified herself as an aunt of Kavan. "But then [Kavan] started screaming, and he was bleeding. But no one could tell where he was bleeding from."
Deciding that "the ambulance was taking too long," the family drove Kavan to Comer Children's Hospital, Willis said. He was listed in serious condition there, police said.
