Police in Harvey have one person in custody and are searching for a second in connection with a shooting late Wednesday that left a 16-year-old girl “fighting for her life” and a 23-year-old woman also injured, officials said.
Harvey spokesman Sean Howard said investigators were called to an apartment building near the intersection of Halsted Street and Sibley Boulevard about 10 p.m. and discovered the two victims lying on the floor of an apartment. The teen had been shot in the head. The other victim was shot in the leg, Howard said.
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Police apprehended one suspect as he attempted to flee, he said, and witnesses have provided some “very credible pieces of information” that police hoped would lead to the capture of the second suspect.
Howard did not provide information about the person in custody or a description of the second suspect.
The two victims and a third individual were in the apartment when shots were fired shortly after there was a knock on the door, Howard said.
After the shooting, the teen was immediately transported to Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, where she is in the intensive care unit with a head injury and is “fighting for her life,” Howard said.
The woman was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with a gunshot wound to the lower leg. The third person was uninjured, he said.
Howard said there had been “some suspicious activity going on in that apartment,” terming it “an issue of drugs.”
Neither victim lived in the apartment, Howard said.
baiduhai’s Megan Crepeau contributed. Dennis Sullivan is a freelance reporter.