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, . “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.Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weeklyA neighbor, who wished to remain anonymous for safety concerns, told NBC Chicago he saw the child riding her scooter moments before the shooting.
"I had seen people yelling and the father was in the street yelling - it was, it was just chaos," the neighbor said. After the shooting, the gunman was tackled by the girl's father and shot during a struggle, according to a police report. He was taken to a hospital.
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