5-Year-Old Shot In Chester Home While Mom Was Making Dinner
By Dan Wing and Joe Holden
CHESTER, Pa. (CBS) -- A five-year-old boy was shot in the arm in his Chester home while his mom was making dinner.
It happened Monday night around 11:00 p.m.
The child's mother, Latosha Hayes, says she was cooking a late dinner, after just getting home from work, when the family heard gunshots outside the home on the 400 block of Whittington Place.
She grabbed her two youngest kids and knocked them to the floor. Their father covered them with his body and they watched bullets tear through the curtains.
That's when the five-year-old said he couldn't breathe. He was rushed to Crozer Chester Medical Center with a bullet lodged near his right shoulder.
"Me and my kids hit the floor," Latosha Hayes described. "Wasn't nothing else we could do." Detectives say as many as 30 shots were fired.
"He said 'mom I'm shot'," Hayes said of her son. "They should not be going through no trauma like this."
Police say he was alert and conscious, and his parents kept him calm by reminding him he has a birthday party coming up.
"You got to start talking for your children's sake," said Dale Hayes Jones, the victim's grandmother. "He's 5-years-old. I could have been here planning his funeral."
Police have no suspects, no motive and there is no indication why this happened, except for the fact that police say it is a case of mistaken identity. The victim is expected to be released from the hospital on Wednesday.
