By Peter Nickeas & Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, September 20, 2013, 2:35 a.m. CDT

Thirteen people, including a 3-year-old boy who suffered a gunshot wound to the head, were shot at a Chicago park in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Thursday night, authorities said [...]  Police said later a total of 13 people were shot, the boy, two teens, and 10 adults, with the boy the most seriously wounded [....]

The attack took place about 10:15 p.m. and fire officials called an Emergency Medical Services Plan II, sending at least 10 ambulances to the scene.

Chicago police were making no information about what happened public, except to say that the shooting appeared to be gang-related. The shootings took place on a basketball court on the 51st Street side of Cornell Square Park near Wood Street.

A witness at the scene said three police officers carried the child to an ambulance. "I didn't hear no sounds," from the child, he said. Family members identified the boy as Deonta' Howard, whose uncle was shot to death on Labor Day, Sept. 2. [....]