Chicago police have few leads in the Wednesday night shooting that claimed the life of a 9-year-old girl on the South Side.
Chicago police have few leads in the Wednesday night shooting that claimed the life of a 9-year-old girl on the South Side. Chastity Turner was helping her father wash the family’s dog around 7 p.m. in the 7400 block of South Stewart Avenue when shots rang out from a green van driving by, said police news affairs Officer Laura Kubiak. The soon-to-be fourth grader at Thorp Elementary School was struck in the neck and taken to the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries a short time later. Her father, Andre Turner, and two other men sustained non-life threatening injuries from the shooting. The girl had been spending time with her father and grandmother at the residence since school let out for the summer. She lived less than two miles away, according to Chastity’s cousin, Erica Johnson. Police said a van matching the description of the one used in the shooting has been recovered, but it hasn’t been determined if it’s linked to the incident, Kubiak said. No one is in custody, police said. In an unrelated incident a few hours later, a 14-year-old boy was shot near 75th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. The teen is recovering at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, police said. No further details are available. ______ Click here for additional photos.
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