2-year-old boy and man are killed in Chicago shooting that was broadcast on social media

A 2-year-old boy and a man in his 20s were killed and a pregnant woman was wounded Tuesday when a gunman opened fire as the trio drove in an alley in Chicago in an attack captured on Facebook Live, authorities said.

Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said paramedics were able to revive the boy on the scene, but authorities say he was later pronounced dead at a hospital.

A 26-year-old man in the car was shot in the head and died, police said. The boy was the man’s nephew, family members of the woman said.

The 20-year-old woman — identified by police as the man’s girlfriend — was shot in the abdomen and was in fair condition, police said. Family members said her unborn child was expected to survive.

Police say a vehicle had passed the car the three were in, and a gunman got out and opened fire in an alley behind an auto electronics shop on the West Side.

No one was in custody, but investigators suspect the man was the intended target.

“We have very promising leads; we have video. There’s no doubt in my mind that we’ll find him,” Johnson said.

The attack was captured on Facebook Live because the woman was broadcasting as the couple drove.

The video shows a woman driving with a man in the passenger’s seat and a young boy in the back seat. The boy doesn’t appear to be in a car seat. The woman pulls into an alley and then looks to her left. The camera angle dips to face the windshield, and gunfire can be heard. The camera moves as the woman appears to jump from the car and start running along a fence line. The gunfire continues, and the woman begins screaming.

The woman appears to run past a house and struggles to open a gate. She screams for someone as she opens the door, and the camera goes black once she enters the home.

The woman yells to others about the shooting, saying she has been struck in the stomach.

At the scene, a neighbor in his early 50s said he saw the aftermath of the shooting and that the child was bleeding from his abdomen and the man in the car was not moving.

“The young lady was just hollering about her baby; she had blood from her stomach,” he said.

At the scene, police surrounded a maroon four-door car in the alley. It had come to rest against an iron fence, its two front doors open.

The three entrances to the alley were blocked off, as were streets around the scene. Neighbors poked their heads from their porches.

The boy was the second child to die Tuesday from Chicago gunfire. Takiya Holmes, 11, died in the morning from wounds suffered in a shooting Saturday.

A second girl wounded over the weekend, Kanari Gentry Bowers, 12, remained in critical condition and on life support Tuesday.

Minutes after the triple shooting, police were sent to the nearby East Garfield Park area, where one man was fatally shot.

Earlier Tuesday, a 30-year-old man was fatally shot in the chest, also on the West Side, around 9:30 a.m., according to police. The man was dead by the time he got to a hospital, according to police.

Schroering, Nickeas and Gorner write for the Chicago Tribune. Tribune staff writer Liam Ford contributed to this report.

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