CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A Englewood man faces a felony gun charge in connection with a road rage shooting Tuesday on Lake Shore Drive that left a toddler critically wounded, according to Chicago police.
According to police, Jushawn Brown, 43, of Englewood, was in the car with the 1-year-old boy and pulled out a gun, firing shots at another vehicle on Lake Shore Drive over a lane change dispute. He was arrested in the 200 block of East Huron Street, where Northwestern Memorial Hospital is located.
Police have not announced an arrest of the person who shot the toddler.
The shooting apparently followed a dispute over one car not letting another car into a lane of traffic around 11 a.m. Tuesday on northbound Lake Shore Drive just south of Soldier Field, police have said.
Both cars continued north and shooting began on Lake Shore Drive just west of the Shedd Aquarium. Bullet casings were recovered over a two-block stretch as the cars proceeded north, police said.
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Kayden Swann, a 21-month-old boy who was in Brown’s vehicle as shots were fired, was struck in the temple and suffered a severe brain injury, said Dr. Marcelo Malakooti, medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit at Lurie Children’s Hospital. The boy was placed in a medically induced coma to protect his brain and is on a ventilator.
"He’s still in a medical coma that we have placed him in to protect his brain during the injury. We’re providing him with the medication to support his brain and to support his heart during this time," Dr. Marcelo Malakooti said.
"The fact that he hasn’t worsened, I would say, provides us with a cautious hope. He certainly hasn’t worsened which is good."
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