Mother slain, young son, two others shot in Auburn Gresham neighborho…

A young mother was fatally shot as her 2-year-old son, his father and another man were caught in gunfire Wednesday afternoon in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.

The four victims were all shot by gunmen just before 3:15 p.m. in the 1200 block of West 81st Street, according to Chicago police.

The boy’s parents, a 23-year-old woman and a 29-year-old man, were standing on the sidewalk with the child when several gunmen exited a black vehicle and opened fire in their direction, Brian McDermott, Chicago police chief of patrol, told reporters at the scene on Wednesday afternoon.

The volley of shots struck the woman multiple times, and the feet of both the boy and his father, said McDermott, who was flanked by police brass and St. Sabina senior pastor, the Rev. Michael Pfleger.

A fourth man, aged 62, was struck in the back by gunfire, authorities said.

The boy was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in fair condition and is expected to recover, McDermott said.

The woman,…