5-Year-Old Shooting Victim Fighting For His Life
CHICAGO (CBS) -- A five-year-old boy is fighting for his life. Jaden Donald was in a South Side park Thursday when he was shot.
CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli spoke to Jaden's uncle.
William Dillon says he received a "devastating phone call" early Friday morning from his sister who told him her youngest son Jaden Donald had been shot.
"She thought the baby had died in her arms. She told me that my nephew was dead because he had stopped moving in her arms as she was rushing him to hospital," said Dillon.
It happened in Cooper Park when a gunman sprayed a group of Fourth of July revelers with bullets. Five year old Jaden was hit in the stomach. When the ambulance took too long, Jaden was rushed to the hospital in the back of a car. Then, Jasmine called her oldest brother with the news.
"She sounded just devastated, I couldn't really understand her," said Dillon. "When she told me my cell phone was dead, because that's what she thought, I was on my cell phone. I literally just crushed my cell phone. So that's how intense that conversation was."
But then came word that the little boy who loves spider man was not dead, just critically wounded.
"So hopefully his spidey powers can kick in and he can recover and come on out of the hospital so we can all get past this," said Dillon.
Dillon says Jaden is in the fight of his life.
"If my little nephew makes it threw this, he is going to have some complications. That's a little body and a big bullet," said Dillon.
But Dillon says Jaden has a big heart, and that's what's giving the family hope.
"We're just praying to god and crossing fingers hoping my nephew can get through this," said Dillon. "Hoping for a miracle."
A suspect is in custody in connection with the shooting of a 5-year-old boy early Friday at a South Side park, but there have been no charges.
