Early Monday, a 16-year-old girl became an unintended target in Chicago's West Side, specifically within the Austin neighborhood. According to Chicago Sun-Times, around 1:35 a.m., the girl was seated in a car, when suddenly a black SUV approached, and the throes of gunfire erupted from its shadowy interior. A bullet found its mark, not to kill but enough to wound, lodging itself into the girl’s buttocks.
Despite the affront of lead, she was spirited away to Stroger Hospital and remained in good condition, an outcome that while fortunate, is a scant salve for the community scarred anew by violence. Chicago police relayed that, no one was in custody following the incident and that Area Four detectives have turned their gaze to this investigation, a quest for truth and for justice in the first block of North Cicero Avenue, where the violent act transpired.
The narrative reported by CBS News Chicago paralleled the earlier account, confirming that the teenager was indeed sitting in a car when the gunfire broke the early morning calm. As is often the case, the assailants' vehicle remained unidentified save for its color and type; an enigmatic black SUV in a city too familiar with such enigmas.
