Police cite ‘inconsistencies’ from family after girl, 14, is seriously wounded in shooting in Gresham home

The girl was shot in her cheek and neck around 4:50 p.m. Sunday in the home in the 1200 block of West 81st Street, police said.

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A 14-year-old girl was shot in her face and neck Sunday afternoon in a home in the Gresham neighborhood. She is in very critical condition, Chicago police said.

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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 her cheek and neck around 4:50 p.m. Sunday in the home in the 1200 block of West 81st Street, 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 in 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 car, about 8 miles south of the Gresham shooting, police said.

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