Chicago shooting: A 7-year-old girl was shot several times on a McDonald’s driveway

Chicago shooting: A 7-year-old girl was shot several times on a McDonald’s driveway

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Jaslyn Adams and her 29-year-old father were in the driveway of a McDonald’s when someone shot at their car, family members told CNN’s subsidiary WBBM.
Jaslyn Adams was 7 years old.

A police vehicle that was already at the scene rushed the girl to a hospital, Chicago police officer Sally Brown said. The girl was shot several times and declared dead.

The male victim was shot in the upper body and admitted to the hospital in serious condition, Brown said.

No suspects were arrested.

“It’s really emotional for my family now,” Jaslyn’s aunt, Tawny McMullen, told WBBM.

“She was just … sweet and outgoing. Really talkative, really sweet.”

McMullen said it was devastating that a regular father-daughter trip to McDonald’s ended with her cousin being shot several times.

“Please put the guns down,” she said.

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“Our children want to play. My children can not even go out the door because of the violence. Please put down the guns.”

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she was ‘sad and angry’ over the deadly shooting.

“This unthinkable act of violence has no place here. The epidemic of gun violence that is cutting short our children’s lives cannot continue,” Lightfoot tweeted.
The shooting comes less than a month after another sensational death of a child, 13-year-old Adam Toledo.

Toledo was killed on March 29 by a Chicago police officer.

According to police, less than a second was shown between the camera footage when the boy held a gun and was shot by the officer.

CNN’s Hollie Silverman contributed to this report.

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