The child was traveling in a minivan driven by a 23-year-old man in the 3100 block of South Ashland Avenue Wednesday evening.

The boy was a passenger in a minivan and suffered a gunshot wound to the back. He was hospitalized in critical condition.

According to police, the child, a 4-year-old boy, was traveling in a minivan driven by a 23-year-old man in the 3100 block of South Ashland Avenue, near the diagonal Archer Avenue, just after 7 p.m.