preCharge News ILLINOIS — A 5-year-old boy is dead after he was shot inside an apartment on Chicago’s South Side on Sunday afternoon.

The shooting happened around 1:17 p.m. in the 4400 block of South Greenwood Avenue in the Kenwood neighborhood.

Chicago police said the child was inside the apartment when he suffered a gunshot wound to the head.

He was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in critical condition and was later pronounced dead.

Police said a weapon was recovered at the scene, and no one is in custody.

Area 1 detectives are investigating. 

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Associated Press, CNBC News, Fox News, and preCharge News contributed to this report.