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2-year-old wounded after finding, firing gun in Humboldt Park residence

A 2-year-old was wounded Monday night after firing a gun he found in a Humboldt Park residence, Chicago police said.

The boy was in a bedroom in a residence in the 400 block of North Lawndale Avenue at 8:26 p.m. when an adult man in the residence heard a loud noise and found the injured child, who was grazed in the wrist, police said. The child was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.

A weapon was recovered at the scene, and no one is in custody, police said.

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