
A teenage boy and man have been charged with first-degree murder in last weekend’s death of an 8-year-old Chicago girl who was shot in the head as she walked hand in hand with her mother by a gunman targeting someone else on the city's Southwest Side.
Melissa Ortega of Chicago was walking with her mother in the city's Little Village neighborhood on Saturday afternoon when someone climbed from a car and opened fire at a 29-year-old alleged gang member who was leaving a store, Police Superintendent David Brown said at a news conference. The girl was pronounced dead Saturday at a hospital.