Police believe a 9-year-old boy was shot by a gunman who had been aiming at his mother's boyfriend as they drove on the South Side.Tykeece Hilliard shouted from the backseat, "Mommy, I'm shot," and his mother drove him to Comer Children's Hospital, about a mile and a half away. He underwent surgery overnight for a gunshot wound to the chest and police said he was expected to survive.
“He’s breathing on his own. He’s talking. He’s doing well,” his mother, Tynisha Hilliard, 28, told reporters, including WGN-TV, outside Comer Children’s Hospital today.At the time of the shooting, other children were in the car but they were not hit, police said. Hilliard she and her six children, and a man she describes as a friend, were all in the car.
The boy's mother told police she was driving near...