A 12-year-old girl has died after she was playing with a gun and it discharged on the city’s South Side, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
The shooting happened around 6:50 p.m. Sunday on the 7100 block of South Constance in the South Shore neighborhood.
Police said the girl was inside an apartment when she sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the abdomen. She was transported in critical condition to Comer Children’s Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
The medical examiner has identified the girl as Priscilla McCullough.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports the girl’s mother told officers that Priscilla was in a bathroom playing with a gun when it fired. The mother was allegedly bathing her 1-year-old in another bathroom at the time of the shooting.
The gun, which reportedly belongs to the mother, was recovered at the scene by police. The Sun-Times said the mother told officers it is usually kept in a locked safe in a bedroom.
