Bullets Fly Through Young Children's Room on Boston Street

Two children in Chicago Heights were inches away from serious injury or death after a Boston Street shooting Saturday, May 12, according to police. 

A 34-year-old Chicago Heights woman told police she heard several gunshots outside her Boston Street home just after 12:30 a.m. The woman said it sounded like her house had been hit, so when the shooting stopped she went to her children’s room, finding two bullet holes in the walls.

The woman told police her sons, who are 4 and 5 years old, had been laying in the bottom bunk bed when the shooting occurred. Police found a bullet hole in one of the windows and determined the bullet passed about one or two inches above the kids' heads.

Police noted there was also a 44-year-old woman downstairs in the same house, where another bullet went through the window-frame.

The woman’s neighbor told police she also heard the shooting and thought it came from her backyard, with more coming from across the street.

A 36-year-old Richton Park woman told police that during the same incident a round struck her car in the front passenger’s side tire as it was parked in the 300 block of Boston Street. Police saw the bullet hole in the woman’s tire, according to the report. She reported hearing 8 to 9 shots fired.

Noone was reported injured in the incident.

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