CHICAGO - A 6-year-old boy was shot Monday evening while riding in a car on the Bishop Ford Expressway, according to Illinois State Police.

What we know:

The shooting happened just after 7 p.m. near the split between Interstate 57 and Interstate 94.

Five bullets struck the side of the gray Jeep where the boy, identified as Nolan, was sitting in the back seat.

His mother, 27-year-old Marlinah Colvin, was in the front passenger seat. She said the family was headed to drop off Nolan before she attended an event when gunfire erupted without warning.

Nolan suffered a gunshot wound that went through his left thigh, leaving both an entry and exit wound. He is recovering at a hospital.

Colvin described the aftermath from her son’s hospital room. She said Nolan already believes that getting

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