Police said that a 9-year old boy and a woman aged 20 were both shot during a fight outside a house in a suburban just south of Chicago.
According to the police, officers responded to a call about a shooting at Matteson around 6 pm on Thursday.
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A 911 caller informed dispatchers that their grandson was shot. Police told reporters in a press conference that the boy died from a gunshot to his abdomen.
The wounds of the woman were not deemed life-threatening. The police did not provide any further information about the shooting.
In a shooting in Matteson (Illinois), a 9-year old boy died and a woman aged 20 was injured.
According to WMAQ , the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the boy as Omuiri Brown Jones.
Denise Jones, the boy’s grandma, told WBBM TV that her granddaughter got into a fight at school with another girl. The girl who was involved in the fight and her friends drove to Jones’ house.
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Jones reported that the girls fought in the street and a teenager who was with them began to shoot.
She described her grandson, who she said was a dancer and honor roll student. She said that the boy was staying with Jones since his mother had moved to Chicago.
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Jones said that “His mother moved out, and he stayed in this area because he did not want to go to Chicago because he was scared of being shot.”
