{"id":178806,"date":"2025-08-27T04:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/178806\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T04:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:25:09","slug":"danya-bell-charged-in-connection-with-kenwood-chicago-shooting-that-killed-child-in-4400-block-of-south-greenwood-avenue-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/178806\/","title":{"rendered":"Danya Bell charged in connection with Kenwood, Chicago shooting that killed child in 4400-block of South Greenwood Avenue: police"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO (WLS) — A woman is facing charges after a 5-year-old boy was shot and killed<\/a> on Chicago’s South Side on Sunday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n

Police said 29-year-old Chicago woman Danya Bell has been charged with one felony count of Causing Child Endangerment\/Death.<\/p>\n

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The shooting happened around 1:17 p.m. Sunday in the Kenwood neighborhood’s 4400-block of South Greenwood Avenue in Kenwood, police said. The victim, a 5-year-old boy, was inside an apartment there when he was shot in the head.<\/p>\n

The boy was taken in critical condition to Comer Children’s Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. His identity has not yet been released.<\/p>\n

Officers arrested Bell less than three hours after the shooting happened, police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

While Chicago police have not confirmed the circumstances of the shooting, a local pastor who has been in close contact with his family said it appeared to have been accidental.<\/p>\n

“The child got a hold of a gun and shot himself,” Pastor Donovan Price said. “The sister called 911 and was driving the child to the hospital, from what I understand.”<\/p>\n

Price spent a few hours at the hospital on Sunday afternoon, praying with the family.<\/p>\n

“It’s a combination of grief and trying to process and facing reality. Trying to really figure out what happened,” Price said.<\/p>\n

The exact circumstances of the shooting were not immediately known. Investigators said a weapon was recovered at the apartment building.<\/p>\n

“When a child is in the house, you know, you have to do everything,” Price said. “It’s like child proofing a house with the, you know, the electrical system in the house. You have to go the extra mile.”<\/p>\n

The boy’s family remained at the hospital well into the evening Sunday as relatives came in to say their goodbyes.<\/p>\n

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