3-year-old Roselle boy killed in Chicago

An unidentified juvenile shot and killed a 3-year-old Roselle boy Sunday morning on the west side of Chicago, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Jaquan Reed was in a home on the 4700 block of West Van Buren Street along with two other juveniles when a gun inside the home fired, sending a bullet smashing through Reed's chest. Staff at Mount Sinai Hospital pronounced him dead at about 1:33 a.m.

Chicago Police spokesman John Mirabelli said it is still unknown whether or not the shooting was accidental or deliberate, as the investigation continues.

Mirabelli also could not say whether or not the two juveniles were related to Reed, or whether or not the home on West Van Buren belonged to a relative of Reed.

An investigator in the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed Reed's death as a homicide following an autopsy.

"When you're shot by another person, that makes it a homicide," the investigator said. "Guns don't go off by themselves."

Police could not provide information on the whereabouts of the adult residents of the home or Reed's parents at the time of the shooting. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is not currently involved with the death investigation, police said.