Akeem Briscoe was getting ready for bed in his family's westside Chicago home when someone fired multiple shots in a nearby alley.
CHICAGO — A 19-year-old man has been arrested in the death of a 7-year-old boy who was struck by a stray bullet while washing his hands in the bathroom of his family’s westside Chicago home.Akeem Briscoe was apparently getting ready for bed on Oct. 26 whenHe later died at a hospital.
Shell casings were found in the alley and detectives examined private video footage from the area in the hopes of identifying who fired the shots. Investigators later learned that shots were fired from one group of people at another group in a car in the alley, police said.Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan
said. “There was nobody struck in that group, and the bullet goes through the window, striking the 7-year-old.” A 16-year-old boy also was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder. The Cook County State’s Attorney’s office said a third suspect was arrested, but not yet charged.
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