The mother of the 14-year-old girl who died a week after being shot in the Austin neighborhood has “lost her heart forever,' an aunt wrote.
A 14-year-old girl shot and critically wounded in the Austin neighborhood last week died Monday afternoon, records from the Cook County medical examiner’s office show.
Police officers had responded to a call of a person shot on the first block of North Lorel Avenue around 8:15 p.m. last Monday and found the teen girl shot in the buttocks. She was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said at the time.A witness at the scene said the girl was shot after an argument among several people.
The medical examiner’s office identified the girl as Charity Johnson. Johnson lived a few blocks away, also in Austin, according to the office.Johnson’s aunt, Shwanda Bell, said there is a “long journey ahead” for Johnson’s mother in a“She will never get to see her baby girl dancing ... doing her hair, laughing,” Bell wrote.
The girl underwent numerous surgeries during the week she was hospitalized before dying, Bell wrote. Now, her mother has “lost her heart forever,” Bell added.
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