4-Year-Old Boy Visiting Dad Killed by Stray Bullets Inside Chicago Home While Getting Hair Braided

Mychal “MJ” Moultry Jr.Photo: gofundme

A 4-year-old Alabama boy died in a Chicago hospital over the weekend, days after being shot while getting his hair braided at a beautician’s home, PEOPLE learns.

WHNT reportsthat Mychal and his mother were in Chicago for the weekend to visit the boy’s father.

The family had recently moved to Alabama, and Mychal’s father was finishing up work in the city, the station reports.

The pre-schooler was getting braids inside the apartment of a beautician in the Woodlawn section of the city at around 9 p.m. when gunfire erupted outside. Two bullets came crashing through a window, hitting him.

The beautician sustained injuries after being hit with shards of broken glass.

Mychal died on Sunday at Comer Children’s Hospital after being removed from life support.

Angela Gregg, Mychal’s mother,spoke tothe Chicago Tribune, and said her son was a gifted boy.

Investigators do not believe Mychal was the target of the shooting.

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She added: “People aren’t answering their doors, and the people that are answering their doors are saying they don’t know anything … Somebody in Chicago knows something.”

Chicago police have made no arrests yet.

A GoFundMe campaignhas been launched online to benefit the boy’s family.

source: people.com