(WBBM NEWSRADIO) – A 37-year-old Brookfield man has been charged in connection with the shooting of two teens outside a Chicago library branch earlier this week – an attack that has left one of the victims hospitalized and facing additional surgery.
Adam Avizius faces one felony county of aggravated battery with a discharged firearm, Chicago police said Thursday. He will appear in court today.
Authorities say the two teens aged 12 and 16 were shot Tuesday evening after some kind of altercation with adults outside the Legler library branch, 100 S. Pulaski Road, in West Garfield Park.
The family of the 12-year-old boy tells WBBM Newsradio that just after he'd been shot, he called his grandmother and said, "I don't want to die."
"They might have to do a second surgery on him, not for sure,” said Tanesha Weatherspoon, aunt of the 12-year-old, Damarion Weatherspoon. "The bullet hit part of his spine, cracked a couple of bones."
She says right after her nephew was shot, he borrowed a phone and called his grandmother.
"And his words were, he got hit. He knows who the guy is, and he don't want to die."
The 16-year-old shooting victim was shot in the leg and had been listed in good condition.
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