Man Playing With Gun Arrested For His Role In Teen's Shooting

Police have arrested a man who accidentally shot a 16-year-old boy while playing with a gun on the South Side.

The victim, an employee of the convenience store on the 1800 block of East 71st St. where the gun was discharged Thursday evening, was shot in his right arm and side, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The adult male in custody said he and the boy were "goofing around" with the gun, police News Officer Hector Alfaro told the newspaper. Police do not know who was holding the gun when it was fired.

The older man drove the victim to Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center, and he was later transferred to Stroger Hospital of Cook County due to the severity of his injuries, police told the Chicago Tribune. He is currently in stable condition.

The older man is in police custody, the Sun-Times reports, but no charges have been filed yet. Calumet area detectives are investigating, and police found a gun belonging to the man at the scene.

Comments

[Chim Richalds]

01:29 PM on 10/31/2011

He didn't "accidently" shoot the teen. There is no way a gun accidently goes off (especially if it was the gun pictured). The safety has to be off (if the gun has one) and the trigger has to be pulled. This was negligence.

[RationalDubSteppa]

11:04 AM on 10/31/2011

Hope they lock this waste of space up. I have no time or love for ignorant thugs terrorizing our beautiful city of Chicago. Lock him up and throw away the key!!

[Rooster Coburn]

03:40 PM on 10/29/2011

This is why all schools should teach safe gun handling just like they teach safe _ _ _ _ _ _ handling in "Sex Education" classes.

[Edward Wilkes]

05:40 AM on 10/30/2011

Right----(Birth Control----Gun Safety Control)----(Condoms----No Bullets!)

[stymie500r]

12:28 PM on 10/29/2011

Nice weapon...missing a laser/optics attachment but still nice, can't say the same for the article though...one shouldn't "play" with guns, they end up like the above story.

[soli]

06:11 AM on 10/29/2011

Why does HuffPost not identify the man?
Just more sloppy reporting.

[glassjaw]

10:18 AM on 10/29/2011

the Sun Times didn't have the name ,,,, the CPD didn't release

sloppy commenting

[ChiGuy]

10:38 AM on 10/29/2011

Considering that the Chicago Sun-Times article to which this one links does not have the man's name either, one can safely assume that the police have yet to release that information. You might want to check those things out in the future.

[ipleathe5thh]

03:09 AM on 10/29/2011

I guess my wife is right adult men can be children