Sangamon Digest

Chicago police on Monday charged Muhammad Sayadul Boshar, 19, with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery and aggravated discharge of a firearm in Friday’s shooting of a 14-year-old boy in the 6300 block of North Rockwell Street in West Rogers Park, ABC7 Chicago reports. Police said he also shot at a 24-year-old man inside a vehicle.

The boy was shot in the neck and taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital in critical condition. A witness told ABC7 the boy, a refugee from Myanmar, had left nearby Mather High School and was walking with a classmate when he was shot in a drive-by. Boshar was arrested Friday night and was due in court Monday.