A 12-year-old girl lost her life to gun violence within the confines of a Calumet Heights home yesterday evening. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the young victim was in a front bedroom at a residence on the 9200 block of South Harper Avenue when she was shot in the head around 8:30 p.m.

Chicago police conveyed that after the shooting, the girl was swiftly transported to Comer Children's Hospital where, the heartbeat of a family, a community, ceased at 9:19 p.m. Several individuals have been brought into conversation with law enforcement, with at least one witness describing the sound of a single gunshot, followed by the sight of a male figure departing the room. As the investigation unfolds, led by Area 2 detectives, two firearms were recovered from the backyard and a solitary shell casing was discovered within the confines of that same front bedroom.

CBS News Chicago has not yet reported on specific details surrounding the cause and manner of the shooting, leaving unanswered questions in the wake of this tragedy. The police are calling on the community for assistance and are likely to be piecing together witness statements and physical evidence to construct the sequence of events that led to this young girl's death.

In the course of investigating the scene, police uncovered not only the firearms and shell casing but also a bloodied jacket within the bedroom, No arrests have been made at this time.