Detectives are sorting through “inconsistencies” as they question relatives of a 14-year-old girl who was shot and critically wounded inside a home in Gresham on the South Side over the weekend.
“We have a lot of work to do,” Chief of Detective Brendan Deenihan told reporters Monday morning.
The girl was shot in the cheek and neck around 4:50 p.m. Sunday in the home on 81st Street near Elizabeth, police said. She was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where Deenihan said she was in “very critical condition.”
Deenihan said the shot was fired inside the home. “It was not a random act where people were shooting outside,” he said.
Detectives have gotten conflicting statements from family members about what went on in the home, Deenihan said. No one was in custody.
Hours earlier, a 13-year-old boy was shot by a man with a concealed carry license during a confrontation after he broke into the man’s Kia about eight miles south.
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