By Tatyana Turner From Chicago Tribune CHICAGO—One minute 8-year-old Melissa Ortega was walking with her mother through their Little Village community Saturday afternoon. The next, gunshots rang out, and mother and daughter broke into a sprint, trying to run to safety in a nearby bank. But it was too late. One of those bullets had already struck Melissa in the head as the pair walked in the 3900 block of West 26th Street at 2:45 p.m., according to Chicago police. She was rushed to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, where she was pronounced dead at 4:43 p.m. The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified her Sunday morning as Melissa Ortega, 8, of the 2800 block of South Tripp Avenue, also in Little Village. Police said the shooter wasn’t aiming at Melissa—who was a student in the third grade at Emiliano Zapata Academy—or her mother. Authorities said the shooter intended to …
8-Year-Old Girl Fatally Struck by Stray Bullet in Chicago Identified
January 24, 2022
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