Friday, November 01, 2019

7-year-old girl is critical condition after being shot while trick or treating in Chicago--UPDATED

It was an unhappy Halloween in Chicago.

From CBS Chicago:
A shootout erupted late Thursday afternoon while children were out trick-or-treating in Little Village, and a 7-year-old girl dressed as a bumblebee ended up getting shot in the neck.

As CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar reported, trick-or-treaters were going in and out of businesses on busy 26th Street near Lawndale Avenue at 5:30 p.m. – including the 7-year-old girl, who police said was just standing on the sidewalk with her family.

Police stress that the 7-year-old girl has no relationship at all to a 31-year-old man who was also wounded in the shooting, and who was believed to have been the target.

Trick-or-treaters and their families still filled the sidewalks of Little Village into the evening, through the haze of blue police lights.
UPDATE 9:15 PM CDT:

The primary suspect in this shooting has been identified.


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