Man faces charge after Chicago road rage shooting wounds boy

<p>CHICAGO &mdash; A man has been charged with unlawful use of a firearm by a felon in connection with a shooting that wounded a 21-month-old boy who was riding in a car with him on Chicago’s famed Lake Shore Drive, police said Thursday.</p>
<p>Jushawn Brown, 43, of Chicago, fired shots at another vehicle "during a road rage incident” about 11 a.m. Tuesday, police said in a statement. Police have said shots were fired at the car Brown was in, which crashed after the boy was shot in the temple.</p>
<p>It wasn’t immediately known whether Brown had a lawyer who could comment.</p>
<p>No other arrests have been reported. The police statement said additional information wasn’t available.</p>
<p>The shooting happened just <a href="https://apnews.com/article/violence-shootings-gun-violence-chicago-0d180f002690a8169a37c2a19d06c1c3">hours after seven people were shot</a> and wounded Monday night in a fight a few miles away, in what is shaping up to be one of the most violent years for Chicago in memory.</p>
<p>Tuesday’s shooting took place near Grant Park on the city’s South Side. Police have said one driver would not let the other enter a lane of traffic. Police recovered bullet casings over about a two-block stretch of the roadway.</p>
<p>A woman jumped out of the car with the child and someone drove them to Northwestern Memorial Hospital before the boy was transferred to Lurie Children’s Hospital, where he was hospitalized.</p>
<p>Brown was scheduled to appear Thursday in bond court.</p>