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Tourist walking with 11-year-old son shot in Streeterville

A woman visiting from Connecticut was shot walking with her 11-year-old son Sunday night across the street from AMC River East 21 movie theater Sunday night in Streeterville.

Around 8:10 p.m., the 46-year-old woman and son were walking back to their hotel after having a pizza dinner and were waiting for the light to change so they could cross the street at the corner of Illinois Street and Columbus Drive, according to a police report.

“She heard two gunshots and saw feathers flying around from her coat and felt a sharp pain in her right forearm,” the report said.

She 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 where she was in good condition, police said.

Police recovered video footage from the AMC River East 21 movie theater, 322 E. Illinois St., and recovered six fired shell casings at 342 E. Illinois St., the report said.

Detectives were also reviewing footage from AMC security which showed an apparent person of interest, a man wearing a red hooded sweatshirt with black marking on its front and on its sleeves, the report said. The man was about six feet tall, had long dreadlocks and white and black shoes, the report said.

Area 3 detectives are investigating but no arrests have been made.

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