Tervalon Sargent said his 5-year-old grandson was just three days into his first year of school, and instead of preparing him for his first full week, his family is praying and hoping doctors can save him. “All I want my little guy to do … is fight because we need him,” Sargent said. He was trying to comfort his daughter while also trying to hold it together. “I’m heartbroken. I’m devastated. I mean, my grandson,” Sargent said. Devin McGregor was shot in the head in the 7600 block of North Paulina Avenue in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood. “They were saying goodbye. They were going home to get ready for school,” Sargent said. “They went to see his father and someone got up and started shooting.” SEE ALSO | ‘No respect for life’: 7-year-old boy among 3 injured in Englewood shooting, Chicago police say Sargent said the boy’s father, identified by Chicago police as 25, was hit in the arm and shoulder when someone in a black Hyundai opened fire shortly after 6 p.m. Community activists are fed up with what they call “Chicago’s child crisis.” “The frustrating part is that one person knows who fired that gun at these kids and they won’t say anything. Those of you who have surveillance video, please help us. Give us that information,” Andrew Holmes said. Sargent said his daughter drove the father and son to St. Francis before the boy was taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital. “My daughter was literally getting out, looked in the mirror and saw my grandson trying to breathe or whatever, and she took them out of the seat and put them in the front with her,” he said. Now, instead of getting him ready for school, Sargent and his daughter prayed the child would make it through the night. “All these kids want to do is go to school and play and they can’t even do that. Then that’s messed up. They can’t even do that and it just happens. It just keeps happening. We have to do something We’ve got to do something. We’ve got to do something,” Sargent said. Chicago police said so far, no one has been taken into custody. McGregor became the twelfth juvenile shooting in the city since last Monday. Copyright © 2022 WLS-TV. All rights reserved.
