7-Month-Old Baby Hit in Head by Concrete

A 7-month-old baby who suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain Sunday night left the intensive care unit at Comer Children’s Hospital in Chicago on Monday afternoon. Little Jamyah Lee was put there by an angry 25-year-old man who hurled a chunk of concrete through a window in the family’s Englewood home on Chicago’s Far South Side.

The concrete struck the baby in the head as she played with toys in a bedroom. The man came to the house looking for a 19-year-old woman, according to Jamyah Lee’s mother, Janica Lee, and he got angry when he was told she wasn’t there. The man argued with Lee’s father, then went to his car where he grabbed a piece of concrete. Then he heaved it through the window of the house Lee and her infant daughter share with her parents and two siblings.

“When I picked her up she was shaking real bad and I felt the bump forming on her head,” Jabrii Lee, the girl’s uncle, told ABC 7 Chicago. “It looked bad and she was throwing up, shaking and she just wasn’t responding well.

Chicago Police said no arrests have been made but the man has a lengthy criminal record, according to ABC 7 Chicago. An ambulance rushed little baby Jamyah from the house in the 1400 block of West 73rd Place to Comer Children’s Hospital, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.

“It happened so quick. He came back to my dad’s face, and they had more words,” Lee told the newspaper. “All I heard is the glass breaking and my baby screaming.”

Doctors told Lee her daughter sustained two fractures to her skull, bleeding on the brain and a blood clot, as well as seizures.

“When she woke up this morning, she was reaching for me and she was playing a little bit,” Lee told the Tribune. “The doctors say it is good that she is a baby because her brain ... it’s just like a puzzle. It’s going to put itself together like a puzzle, and she won’t need surgery.”

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