Aurora girl shot; three in custody

Aurora police are holding three men late Thursday who they believed were responsible for the Wednesday night shooting of a 4-year-old girl on the city's near east side.

The girl, whose name was not released, was being treated for nonlife-threatening injuries, including a wound to one of her arms.

Police said the girl was in a car parked in a driveway on the 900 block of North Avenue about 8 p.m. Wednesday when someone fired several shots from an eastbound red Ford Escort.

One of the shots grazed the girl in one of her arms. The vehicle continued east on North until the driver apparently lost control and crashed into a fence about a block away.

Police and Kane County sheriff's deputies set up a perimeter in the area and took a 20-year-old Aurora man into custody in the 500 block of Smith Boulevard.

Almost simultaneously, according to police, officers received information that two other men -- a 19-year-old from Aurora and a 19-year-old from Yorkville -- also might have been involved in the shooting.

An Aurora officer recognized the Yorkville man riding in a car in the 400 block of South Ohio Street. Officers stopped the car at Sixth Avenue and Smith and took that man, along with the other Aurora man, who was found laying in the back seat, into custody without incident.

No formal charges had been filed as of late Thursday. Police said the investigation is continuing.