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A mother and her teenage son were shot and seriously wounded this morning in a Northwest Side home invasion, authorities said.
At least two suspects were arrested following the shooting, which occurred in the 3400 block of North Lawndale Avenue in the Avondale neighborhood at about 8:40 a.m., police said. A third person was also being questioned, they said.
The two victims were taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital in serious to critical condition, according to the Fire Department. Police said at least one of the them was shot in the head.
The owner of the building said the upstairs tenant called him this morning in tears, alerting him of the shooting. He went to the scene, where officers told him there had been a home invasion and suspects had been arrested.
The owner said a mother and her son, a high school student, have lived in the lower unit of the building for about a year and a half.
Reached by phone this morning, the upstairs tenant declined to comment.
The block is lined with two-story wood-framed houses, similar to the one where the shooting occurred. The home, with five Halloween headstones on the front lawn, sits across the street from St. Wenceslaus School, which is next to a church.
Kurt Hafner, an employee at a catering business on the block, said it's "very scary" and "very startling" to know about a shooting on the block.
"You'd think with a school across the street this neighborhood would be as safe as any," he said.
The home was roped off with yellow and red tape, as detectives and evidence technicians walked in and out. Four marked and two unmarked squad cars remained on the scene as of 11:30 a.m.
