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Little Village shooting leaves driver critically wounded; SWAT team called to area
A SWAT situation is unfolding in Little Village after a man was shot in the head and crashed his car Tuesday morning.
CHICAGO - An 18-year-old Chicago man was arrested almost three hours after a man was shot in the head while driving on the city’s Southwest Side earlier this week, according to police.
What we know:
The shooting happened at 8:40 a.m. Tuesday in the Little Village neighborhood.
Police said a 31-year-old man was driving north in the 2700 block of South Ridgeway Avenue when he was hit in the head by gunfire. After being shot, he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a nearby parked car.
The man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.
Kaleb Ortega-Guardiola, 18, was arrested at 11:26 a.m. in the 2700 block of South Lawndale Avenue, near where a SWAT team and heavy police presence was seen that morning.
Kaleb Ortega-Guardiola | CPD
He has been charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery involving the discharge of a firearm.
What we don't know:
It remains unclear whether the shooting was targeted or random.
What's next:
Ortega-Guardiola is scheduled for a detention hearing on Friday.
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The Source: The information in this story came from the Chicago Police Department.