(Sun Times Wire) A girl who was shot in the head by a stray bullet Monday night in south suburban Harvey died Tuesday on her 12th birthday. Kentayvia Blackful was pronounced dead at 10:28 p.m. on Tuesday at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. She was shot…

(Fox) A 13-year-old boy was fatally shot Saturday afternoon when a gun was accidentally discharged in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side. Deon Williams and his teenage friend were playing with a gun about 3 p.m. in the 7300 block of South Aberdeen when it was fired, Chicago police and the Cook County medical…

(ABC) A 1-year-old boy is hospitalized in critical condition after being shot in the head on Chicago’s Far South Side Thursday night, and a reward has been offered to find the shooter. The shooting occurred at about 5:30 p.m. at 99th and Throop streets in the Washington Heights neighborhood. Police said the 1-year-old was in…

(Sun Times Wire) Eleven people were wounded by gunfire Monday across the city and an 11-year-old boy was found shot to death in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side. About 1 a.m., emergency crews found Jechon Anderson unresponsive with blunt force trauma to the head about on the floor of a home…

(NWI TIMES) A Washington Elementary School fifth-grader died Sunday after being shot in the head when a fight broke out Saturday in the city’s Harbor section. Authorities have identified the boy as 11-year-old David L. Anderson. School City of East Chicago Superintendent Paige McNulty said grief counselors were available at the school Monday morning to…