Ulysses Campos was playing with a group of children in an alley late Saturday when four to six shots were fired from a moving vehicle, said police.
FRANKLIN PARK, Ill. — A 9-year-old boy attending his grandmother’s birthday party in a Chicago suburb was killed in a drive-by shooting, police said.
Ulysses Campos had been playing with a group of children in an alley late Saturday when four to six shots were fired from a moving vehicle, Franklin Park police director Michael WitzThe boy was struck in the chest and died after being taken to a hospital, police said. No one else was struck by gunfire in the 10:15 p.m. shooting, which happened in a Franklin Park neighborhood about a mile outside Chicago’s western city limits.
Police said a person of interest in the shooting was taken into custody, and officers found a car suspected to be involved in the shooting in nearby Leyden Township.
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