Melissa was walking with her mother when a gunman emerged from a nearby alley and opened fire, unleashing a hail of bullets that fatally struck the 8-year-old girl twice in the head and wounded a gang member who was the intended target, a police report shows.
About 2:55 p.m. Saturday, Melissa and her mother were walking east on 26th Street near Pulaski Road when the gunfire erupted, according to the internal report obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times."You slept on a pillow last night… while this baby was laying on a steel table at the medical examiner's office. You come here as a punk and you lay this little girl's brains out on the street," Andrew Holmes said.
When the shots rang out, Melissa’s mother recalled running toward a bank when she felt her daughter "go limp," according to the report. That’s when she realized Melissa had been shot twice in the right side of her head. "You’re not being a snitch. You’re helping," said Elizabeth Ramirez, co-founder of Parents of Peace and Justice, who encouraged anyone with information to come forward. "Just picture yourself standing where we’re standing. Wouldn’t you want someone to say something?""This suffering is becoming too familiar for our babies and their families, who our educators love, nurture and support," the union wrote in a post on Twitter.
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