“They just shot my baby,” Dad said, moments after the 7-year-old girl was killed at McDonald’s in Homan Square.

A seven-year-old girl was killed and her father was seriously injured during a shooting on Sunday afternoon while parking in a McDonald’s driveway in the Homan Square neighborhood.

Chicago police said the father, Jontae Adams, 28, and his daughter, Jaslyn, were in a silver Infiniti at the McDonald’s in the 3200 block of West Roosevelt Road at about 4:20 p.m. An McDonald’s employee, who asked not to be named, said two people got out of a gray car and started shooting at the victim’s car.

Jontae Adams angrily called his mother, Lawanda McMullen, after the shooting.

“He said, ‘Mom, come get me.’ “They just shot my baby,” McMullen recalled.

Police said the girl, with three siblings, was shot repeatedly and was taken by police officers to Stroger Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

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Her police were shot in the upper body and also taken to Stroger, where his condition was listed as serious, police said.

Police said the shooting was apparently gang-related, and less than three hours later, two people were shot in their car at a Popeyes parking lot in Humboldt Park, which investigators say is related to the McDonald’s shooting.

A 33-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman were in a Chevy Malibu in the Popeyes parking lot near Chicago and Kedzie, when a gunman pulled into a car at 7:12 p.m., and set it on fire. The man was shot in the left leg; the woman in the belly. Both were taken to Stroger Hospital, with the man in a serious condition, and the woman critical.

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In the McDonald’s parking lot, the scene was littered with casings, and the car was marked with bullet holes.

Spectators gathered just outside the police warning belt, amazed at the audacity of the shooting.

“Incredibly, they did it in front of all the cameras,” said one man who asked to remain anonymous. “These kids are getting fat.”

Jaslyn’s aunt, Tawny McMullen, said her niece was a ‘beautiful’ and ‘very sweet child’.

McMullen said Jaslyn was best friends with her 8-year-old daughter.

Lawanda McMullen said her granddaughter loves to dance and make TikToks.

Joslyn was a student at Cameron Elementary School. She got the nickname Pinky because she was bright and pink was her favorite color, family members said.

Even before the shooting of Popeyes, outside Stroger Hospital, family members begged to end the violence.

“Put the guns down,” Tawny McMullen pleaded as tears streamed down her face. ‘Our children want to play, my children can not even get out the door [the violence.] Please put the guns down. My 8-year-old baby says she does not even want to go outside to play because she is afraid she will be shot. It must stop. ‘

Other community activists, including an emotional Andrew Holmes, also called for a ceasefire.

“You just took someone’s queen away. You just took away a mother’s daughter. You just hurt the father – for what? says Holmes, who calls the shooting “senseless”.

‘Every parent took a child to McDonald’s to get something to eat. Not to get some bullets. For the shooter, why? Why? If you’ve had kids, have you taken your kids to McDonald’s yet? ‘

Marvin Edwards, president of 100 Men Standing, a Cabrini-Green group that advocates for gun violence, encouraged everyone with information regarding the shooting incident to come forward.

“We are tired of this. “It does not condemn,” Edwards said. ‘Whoever pulled this trigger on this young lady and took her life and was trying to get something to eat from McDonald’s, whoever is housing these people, is reporting these people. . . We plead with you, do not let it be undone. Turn it on immediately. This family is currently going through hell because of the actions of some fools. ‘

People can leave anonymous tips behind by calling 1-800-U-TELL-US or by sending CPD’s text line to 274637.

No arrests were made.

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