A 2-year-old boy in Chicago’s in North Lawndale neighborhood was shot multiple times in the lower body just after 4 p.m. Thursday, and a person of interest was in custody, police said.

Police said at 4:05 p.m. this day after Christmas, the toddler was inside an apartment in a multi-family building in the 3800 block of West 14th Street, near Avers Avenue—when he was shot multiple times in his lower body.

The boy was inside a home in the 3800 block of West 14th Street when someone opened fire around 4:05 p.m., Chicago police said.

Police said a 23-year-old man was found in the street after a call of shots fired in the 1100 block of South Francisco Avenue around 12:45 a.m.

CHICAGO - A 2-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded Thursday on Chicago's West Side. The shooting happened around 4 p.m. in the 3800 block of West 14th Street in the city's North Lawndale neighborhood.

Around 12:45 a.m., the man, 23, was found on the street in the 1100 block of South Francisco Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds to his body, Chicago police said.