Three People Shot On Facebook Live In Chicago

A two-year-old boy is the latest innocent victim of Chicago’s gun violence epidemic after a shooting in broad daylight was captured on Facebook Live.

An unidentified toddler was shot in the head while riding along with his 20-year-old aunt and her 26-year-old boyfriend Tuesday afternoon on the city’s West Side, according to police.

The 26-year-old, a documented gang member believed to be targeted in the shooting, was also pronounced dead after being hit in the head when a gunman popped out of another car and opened fire.

The aunt, who was pregnant and shot in the abdomen, had been on Facebook Live before the shooting, capturing images of her boyfriend and her nephew in the back seat as she sings to music.

She sprinted from the car as shots were heard, running to a nearby house and yelling that she has "a bullet in my stomach."

After emotional pleadings with someone she calls "Momma," saying she does not want to go to the hospital because she could be taken to jail, the video captures the sounds of a television.

The aunt was in fair condition Tuesday evening, according to Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, who lambasted “legislative partners” for their inaction on gun violence.

“This has got to stop somewhere. Our children should not have to pay the price for our inability to hold repeat gun offenders responsible for their actions,” he said at a press conference.

Johnson said his department had "promising leads" in finding the shooter and two others traveling with him.

The shooting came the same day an 11-year-old girl was struck in the head by a stray bullet while sitting in a minivan died.

Takiya Holmes had been on life support at a local hospital after she was shot Saturday night on the city’s South Side.

“At 8:17 this morning Takiya passed away in her mother's arms,” her cousin Rachel Rae Williams posted on Facebook.

Police say Takiya was in the back passenger’s seat of a car when a gunman fired an unidentified number of shots intended for someone else.

A page setting up a vigil for the little girl said her family had been loading groceries when the gunfire erupted.

There have been 92 children 11 or younger who have been killed in Chicago’s gun violence epidemic, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The fifth grader’s grandmother, Patsy Holmes, told the newspaper her granddaughter was “jovial” and had “eyes and dimples that will set your heart on fire.”

Kanari Bowers, 12, was wounded by a stray bullet in a separate incident Saturday night and remained hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday.

"Our consciences are shaken and our hearts are broken," Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a statement Tuesday evening.

"These shootings must be a turning point for our city. Anyone with information about these crimes owes it to the families of these children to come forward," he said.

The Tribune's violence tracker says there have been 410 shooting victims so far in 2017, following more than 4,300 last year.

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