A 15-year-old boy is facing charges in connection with the shooting of a tourist near the AMC River East 21 in Streeterville earlier this month.
The teen was arrested Monday and is accused of firing the gun that wounded a 46-year-old woman from Connecticut who was walking with her 11-year-old son March 9 in the 300 block of East Illinois Street, Chicago police said.
He was charged with felony aggravated battery with a firearm, police said.
The shooting happened as the woman and her son finished a pizza dinner and were walking back to their hotel about 8:10 p.m., according to a police report.
As they waited for a light to change at Illinois Street and Columbus Drive, she “heard two gunshots and saw feathers flying around from her coat,” the police report said. She was shot in her right forearm.
The woman and her son ran south across the river to Wacker and Columbus drives, where they asked a passerby for help. That person and her son called 911, and she was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition, police said.
The woman previously told the Sun-Times that she and her son were in Chicago for a school choir conference.