The shooting happened on Saturday at East 69th near Oglesby at a South Shore apartment around 10:45 p.m.
A mother, who has a CCL, said her 18-year-old daughter had just returned to her bedroom when someone tried to break in..
"He was, like, hanging on her window. I just told him that, 'I have a gun. I'm going to shoot.' And he just didn't stop. I fired a warning shot. I didn't even know that he got hit," the mother said.
Police found 36-year-old Christopher Grady shot in the leg. He was taken to the hospital in fair condition.
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"Next time you think about coming through somebody's window, you just remember how that bullet felt," the daughter told ABC7 Chicago.
On Tuesday, Grady was charged with a felony for attempted burglary.
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