Baby shot in Back of the Yards expected to be OK

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two Chicago police officers rushed a baby who had been shot in the Back of the Yards neighborhood to the hospital.

Chicago Police Officer Kevin Modzelewski, who held the baby in the backseat of the police squad car, said the baby's aunt brought Princeton Chew, 11 months, to them. He was wounded in the side and bleeding.

"I got the baby, stopped the bleeding with pressure," Monique Williams, baby's aunt, said. "I'm a nurse."

The officers, who were the first at the scene, called a fire station to see if there was an ambulance nearby, but there wasn't.

"We need to take action right now," Modzelewski said.

"We made the decision to go forward," Chicago Police Officer John Conneelly said. "I'm on the radio with dispatch, letting them know what we're doing. We were coming in."

Along the route to Stroger Hospital, other police squads blocked off traffic. Princeton is expected to be OK.

His mother, Patricia Chew, 23, was holding him when they were shot Monday at 7:10 p.m. near West 53rd and South Aberdeen streets. She was killed. So was his grandmother, Lolita Wells, 46.

"I was talking to Lolita. She faded out. She came back. She just kept saying help me," Williams said.

No one is in custody.

Chicago Police Deputy Chief Eugen Roy said the department is proud of Officers Modzelewski and Conneelly.

"The officers saw a seriously injured 11-month-old child, made a decision to transport that child immediately to a hospital. And he made the right call. He's somebody we're very proud of," Deputy Chief Roy said.

Two other people- both 25 year old men- were also wounded in the shooting. Police believe they were standing next to the family's vehicle and may have been the intended targets.

"I'm going to stop or I'll regret what I say," Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday. "I'm angry about what happened here and I think I speak for everybody. And I think I speak for everybody when I say enough is enough."