Trending Topics

Police rush baby to hospital when ambulance not close enough

The baby was shot in a drive-by shooting that killed his mother, grandmother and injured two others

By Diane Pathieu
WLS

CHICAGO — Two Chicago police officers rushed a baby who had been shot in the Back of the Yards neighborhood to the hospital.

Chicago Police Officer Kevin Modzelewski, who held the baby in the backseat of the police squad car, said the baby’s aunt brought Princeton Chew, 11 months, to them. He was wounded in the side and bleeding.

“I got the baby, stopped the bleeding with pressure,” Monique Williams, baby’s aunt, said. “I’m a nurse.”

Read full story: Baby shot in Back of the Yards expected to be OK