A number of individuals are being questioned by police after a 12-year-old lady was fatally shot inside a Calumet Heights house Sunday evening on the South Aspect.
Round 8:30 p.m., the lady had been with one other individual solely described as a male inside a entrance bed room of a house when she was shot within the head within the 9200 block of South Harper Avenue, Chicago police mentioned.
The lady, who suffered a gunshot wound to the correct facet of her head, was taken to Comer Youngsters’s Hospital the place she was pronounced useless at 9:19 p.m., police mentioned.
In accordance with a police report, a number of folks have been on the house on the time, together with no less than one who heard a single gunshot and noticed a male noticed a male exiting the bed room “shortly thereafter.”
One shell casing from a fired bullet and a bloody jacket was discovered within the bed room whereas two weapons have been recovered within the yard, in response to the report.
Space 2detectives are investigating.