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BREAKING: 1-Year-Old Shot In Head On Chicago's South Side

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A one-year-old boy was shot in Chicago's Longwood Manor neighborhood Thursday night, Chicago police say.

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Police on the scene at Little Company of Mary in Evergreen Park after a one-year-old boy was shot in the head in Longwood Manor. (CBS)

The boy was sitting in the back passenger side of a parked vehicle with four other people when a dark older sedan pulled up and someone inside shot into the car, hitting the infant in the head.

A relative then drove the boy about 2.5 miles to Little Company of Mary Hospital in critical condition and will be transferred to Comer Children's Hospital.

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"We are praying for this young boy as detectives search area for possible crime & traffic cameras that may have captured the offending vehicles direction of flight," CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted.

Anyone who may have been driving in 9900 block of South Throop and witnessed incident is asked to send information to

No one is in custody, and Area South detectives are investigating.

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