Bullet shatters Englewood home, grazing 13-year-old girl inside

The eighth grader was grazed in the elbow and was treated by CFS paramedics on the scene, Chicago police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

Updated

Red crime scene tape is seen lit up from a car’s headlights. — A girl was grazed by gunfire July 13, 2023 on the South Side.

Shots fired by a passing car pierced the front window of an Englewood neighborhood home, grazing a 13-year-old girl inside on Thursday night on the South Side.

The eighth grader was on the front porch of a home with her family in the 7100 block of South Carpenter Street about 7:40 p.m. when a vehicle approached and someone inside opened fire, police said.

The girl ran inside but she was grazed in the left shoulder by one round which came through the front window and ended up lodged in a wall, police said.

Paramedics treated her on the scene and she wasn’t taken to a hospital, police said.

No one was in custody.

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