Family Hoping For Recovery After 11-Year-Old Girl Shot While Sitting In Mother’s Car At West Pullman Gas Station – CBS Chicago

CHICAGO (CBS) — An 11-year-old girl is in critical condition, clinging to life after she was shot in her mom’s automobile this week. Docs at Comer Youngsters’s Hospital are doing every thing doable to save lots of her life as her household prays the swelling in her mind will go down.

Nevertheless, relations inform CBS 2’s Jermont Terry it’s “not wanting promising.”

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Friday night time a small crowd outdoors the hospital held fingers whereas holding onto hope that Ny-Andra Dyer will pull by way of.

Somebody shot the sixth grader whereas she was sitting in her van at a fuel station in West Pullman off 127th and Michigan.

“Everyone ought to wish to discover out who did this as a result of everyone has to cease at a fuel station,” mentioned Pastor Donovan Value. 

The bullet pierced her spinal twine. Docs informed her mom it’s too harmful to take away, leaving her daughter in a contact and go state of affairs with swelling on her mind.

“Proper now as we converse her household, her mother has to satisfy with docs to maybe make the toughest determination that any father or mother might ever make of their lives,” mentioned Value. 

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Earlier within the week, Ny-Andra’s mom made an emotional plea for the shooters to give up.

“Please put the weapons down,” she mentioned.

As police seek for the gunmen, Value stresses that extra folks must be outraged.

“There must be numerous tears, possibly if the police had shot her then there can be extra folks out right here as a result of that appears to be the favored factor as of late,” he mentioned. 

Whereas the prayers and a spotlight heart on the household and the woman’s enchancment, there’s a clear name to the neighborhood to do extra to maintain each youngster protected from gun violence in Chicago.

“This isn’t COVID,” Value mentioned. “There isn’t any vaccine. We’re the vaccine, and everyone wants a dose.”

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A $30,000 reward is being provided to whoever leads police to an arrest and conviction. Ideas can stay nameless.