The man who shot and gravely wounded a 1-year-old girl inside a Chicago Lawn home over the weekend intended to pull the trigger on an electric drill but accidentally pulled the trigger on a machine gun in his other hand, unleashing a burst of bullets that struck the child in the back of the head, prosecutors said Monday.
Davaris Washington, 38, is now detained pending trial in connection with Saturday morning’s shooting that left his girlfriend’s young daughter intubated and in critical condition.
On Friday night, Washington invited the woman to his apartment and paid for her Lyft ride to his home in the 6400 block of South Mozart Street, according to a detention filing by Assistant State’s Attorney Elizabeth Dibler. The woman arrived shortly before midnight, let herself in, and sat on a living room sofa, placing the child on the floor nearby in her car seat…