A Chicago family is mourning the loss of a teen killed while visiting family in northwest Indiana.
Neighbors rushed out to try to help boy, but said they were too lateA Chicago family is mourning a teen killed in a shooting in Whiting, Indiana on LaPorte Avenue near Ohio Avenue. Neighbors are shaken by the incident.The shooting happened Saturday on LaPorte Avenue near Ohio Avenue in Whiting, Indiana.The shooting happened just steps away from the home of the victim's relatives, who said he was walking to the park with his cousins and friends when he was shot and killed.
"By the time the paramedics showed up, he had stopped gasping. I'd never watched a child die before," said Chrissy Serrato, a neighbor who tried to save the boy's life.1 dead in Indianapolis shooting, with off-duty officer among 5 wounded, police say "I heard three pops: 'boom, boom, boom,'" neighbor Ron Yzaguirre said. "I knew something was wrong. People were screaming and crying."
"Poor baby, his shoes were still sitting here. His cell phone's on the floor," neighbor Denise Lopez said."I was afraid to touch him, and the kids were trying to pull him up. They were saying, 'Come on,'" Serrato said. "I just can't imagine what those children were going through. That was just - it was traumatic for me!""Our neighbor - a bullet, I guess, was lodged in her TV," she said.
Relatives of the victim, on Monday, went combing through the block for possible surveillance video of the crime."I don't even know those boys. I just wanted to hug them," Serrato said. "It was a very loving embrace. It felt good. It can't fix this, though. I felt terrible that I couldn't do anything."Related Topics
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