A man has been charged with wounding a 3-year-old boy in the face last month during a drive-by shooting in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
Andy Wallace, 35, was arrested Thursday in Cicero and charged with aggravated battery and aggravated discharge of a firearm in the Feb. 22 shooting, Chicago police said.
That morning, he allegedly pulled up in a white SUV and fired shots into a car occupied by the child and a woman in the 3400 block of West Congress Parkway.
The woman drove the child to Stroger Hospital, where he was listed in good condition, police said.
A family member had said the boy needed surgery to remove a bullet lodged in his temple. The 36-year-old woman in the car was uninjured.
Wallace, from Lawndale, was expected to appear in court later Friday.
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