14-year-old girl dies days after Back of the Yards shooting
CHICAGO - A 14-year-old girl who was shot Wednesday by gang members after being chased in Back of the Yards has died.
Savanah Quintero was pronounced dead at 12:57 p.m. at Comer Children’s Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The shooting happened around 6 p.m. in the 1700 block of West 48th Street, Chicago police said.
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The teen and her boyfriend had just bought snacks from a store when they were confronted by three young gunmen, according to police and Ald. Ray Lopez (15th).
They asked if she was in a gang, and after she said she wasn’t, the attackers chased her and opened fire, officials said. She was taken to Comer in critical condition at the time.
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No arrests have been reported.
Lopez, who said he got details of the shooting from police, said a new gang in the area has been recruiting from neighborhood schools — focusing on kids 15 years and younger. He blamed the glorification of gang culture for violence in his ward.
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"This elevation of gang life has to come to an end. It’s not cute. It only comes to one outcome, what we saw last night," he told the Sun-Times.
The seventh-grader said she was not in a gang but a relative belonged to the rival Almighty Saints, Lopez said.