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Jilly_in_VA

(10,160 posts)
Mon Aug 7, 2023, 06:02 PM Aug 2023

8-year-old Chicago girl fatally shot by man upset with kids making noise, witnesses say

An 8-year-old Chicago girl riding a scooter was fatally shot in the head by a man who was upset over noise, witnesses said.

"It just didn’t make sense. None of it made sense,” a neighbor, Megan Kelley, told the Chicago Sun-Times. “Everybody in the community would just tell him they are just kids having fun playing. Just let them be.”

The shooting happened Saturday night in Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood. Police were at the suspect's apartment building Sunday, interviewing people and collecting evidence, hours after the death of Sarabi Medina.

"Before he shot her, he had said something about them being too loud,” Kelley said.

After the shooting, the gunman was tackled by Sarabi's father and shot during a struggle, according to a police report. He was taken to a hospital.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/8-year-chicago-girl-fatally-shot-man-upset-102070356

He's lucky the neighbors didn't beat him to death. When will enough be enough?

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8-year-old Chicago girl fatally shot by man upset with kids making noise, witnesses say (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Aug 2023 OP
Back In Early Winter '74... ProfessorGAC Aug 2023 #1
A gun solves everything apparently. Diamond_Dog Aug 2023 #2
Sarabi Medina's mother also shot to death in separate incident in 2018 struggle4progress Aug 2023 #3
Portage Park Man Charged With Murder struggle4progress Aug 2023 #4
WTAF sakabatou Aug 2023 #5
idiots blaming this on the new mayor. mopinko Aug 2023 #6
How kind of the media for not releasing a photo of the perp tenderfoot Aug 2023 #7

ProfessorGAC

(66,107 posts)
1. Back In Early Winter '74...
Mon Aug 7, 2023, 06:08 PM
Aug 2023

...a guy who was in my junior year homeroom (I left after 3 years for college, so I hadn't seen him since June '73) shot and killed an 11 year old for throwing snowballs at his car. With a 30-06 rifle.
He died of cancer, still in prison, a couple years ago.
This kind of crazy has been among us for quite a while, unfortunately.

struggle4progress

(118,566 posts)
4. Portage Park Man Charged With Murder
Mon Aug 7, 2023, 06:28 PM
Aug 2023

Ariel Parrella-Aureli
4:25 PM CDT on Aug 7, 2023

... Holmes said Serabi’s mother previously was shot and killed, and the father was raising Serabi on his own ... Kelley told the Sun-Times that Serabi’s mother was fatally shot in Austin in 2018 ...

https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/08/07/portage-park-man-charged-with-murder-of-8-year-old-neighbor-after-reportedly-saying-she-was-too-loud/

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