Probation Fail

One-year-old shot via a negligent discharge:

• A 21-year-old man accidentally shot a 1-year-old boy while changing his diaper in a South Shore apartment earlier this month, police say, after a gun he kept inside the child’s diaper bag became tangled and discharged, prosecutors say.

  Chicago police initially responded to a report of a child shot in the 7700 block of South Yates shortly after 2 p.m. on November 8. Officers found the toddler with gunshot wounds to his left and right legs, and EMS took him to Comer Children’s Hospital in critical condition, a CPD report said.

Guess the twenty-one-year old is on probation for???

• [...] According to police, 21-year-old Torion Stokes first told officers that an unknown man tried to force his way into the apartment and opened fire, striking the child. After hearing conflicting accounts, investigators took Stokes in for questioning, recovering a 9mm handgun from his front left pocket as they took him into custody, according to charging documents.

  A search of the apartment turned up more weapons and accessories, according to police. Officers reported finding another handgun in Stokes’ bedroom along with a drum magazine in a hallway closet. In a separate bedroom, they allegedly found a second drum magazine, a second handgun, and a box of ammunition.

  Court records show Stokes is currently in a “first-time weapon offender probation” program tied to a 2023 unlawful use of a weapon case. If he completes that probation successfully, the 2023 matter would be dismissed without a conviction.

We're going to go out on a limb here and say his "probation" effort is going to fall a bit short of the "successful" metric.

And the one-year-old, if he survives, will probably never walk normally.