A car sits surrounded by police tape late Sunday at the doors to the emergency room at Community Hospital in Munster.
Lansing police search a section of Ridge Road, near Ada Street, late Sunday after a shooting.
A car sits surrounded by police tape late Sunday at the doors to the emergency room at Community Hospital in Munster.
The door to a car surrounded by police tape sits ajar late Sunday outside the emergency room at Community Hospital in Munster.
Lansing police search along Ridge Road, near Ada Street, after a shooting late Sunday.
Lansing police search a section of Ridge Road near Ada Street late Tuesday after a shooting.
LANSING — A 15-year-old boy was shot in the head Sunday night while riding in a car, police said.
Lansing police were dispatched about 9:50 p.m. to the 3600 block of Lake Street for a report of shots fired, Lt. Al Phillips said.
A short time later, the teen arrived at Community Hospital in Munster in a car driven by a relative, police said.
Police received an initial report that the shooting occurred outside a smoke shop at 15 Ridge Road, but no evidence was found at that location, Phillips said.
After speaking with the victim’s relative, police learned he’d been shot while riding in a car on Lake Street in Lansing, police said.
Investigators were told someone in a small gray four-door car shot at the vehicle in which the teen was riding, sending a bullet through the windshield and and striking the boy in the forehead.
The bullet did not pierce the teen’s skull, police said.
The teen was later transported to a Chicago hospital in stable condition. He is expected to recover, police said.
Investigators believe the teen was targeted, Phillips said.
Anyone with more information is urged to contact police at 708-895-7150.
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