Pierre A. Solomon, of the 6200 block of South Albany Drive, was charged with one count of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated battery with a firearm.
The shooting stemmed from a verbal argument, police had said, adding that the girl, who was seriously wounded in the right leg, was not the intended target. The man, who apparently was the target, was grazed in the back.
The shooting happened at about 4:40 p.m. in the 5700 block of South Hoyne Avenue, and a gun was recovered, police said. Police said on Saturday they already were questioning “a person of interest.”
Community activist Andrew Holmes, director of the No Guns No Violence group, who arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting, said he spoke with the girl's mother at Comer Children’s Hospital and was told the girl had been playing outside with a friend when someone on the street fired a gun.
"The little girl started hollering," Holmes said. "She didn't know at the time that she'd been shot."
According to Holmes, the girl ran into her friend's house where they discovered that a bullet apparently had passed through her thigh.
Solomon is scheduled to appear in bond court later today.
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