Thursday, June 25, 2009

Suspects in custody for murder of 9-year-old girl

Girl lived in the ward at 75th & King Dr according to this Sun-Times report. This was in the feed for both the 6th and for Chatham courtesy of EveryBlock.
Two people are in custody in Wednesday night’s drive-by slaying of a 9-year-old girl who was outside her grandmother’s house washing her dog when she was shot in the neck, police said.

A rifle possibly linked to the crime has also been recovered, a source said. Forensic tests are underway to see if it was the weapon used to kill Chastity Turner.

The day before she died, Chastity told her grandmother she didn’t feel safe on the block because of a Tuesday shooting spree there. Chastity was there visiting her father.

The same block — the 7400 block of South Stewart — has also been the scene of two other shootings earlier this year. Police have executed search warrants on the same block in recent weeks seeking to seize weapons, sources said.

In June, a 22-year-old man was shot and wounded on the same block. In March, a high school student was shot and wounded there as well.
Read the whole article she already realized she was unsafe and then the unthinkable happens. It's probably said often enough, but it seems like we're losing too many young people already!

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