A 16-year-old boy was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Jai’Mani Amir Rivera, Chicago police announced Friday. The teen was charged with two separate counts of first-degree mu…
Vanessa Rivera, second from right, holds a Spider-Man toy as she is comforted during a march for peace on West Jackson Boulevard in Chicago on June 21, 2024, near the Oakley Square apartment complex where her nephew Jai’Mani Amir Rivera was killed Tuesday.
Children gather during a vigil on June 19, 2024, for Jai’Mani Amir Rivera, 7, who was killed in a shooting outside Oakley Square Apartments on Tuesday. Chicago police Superintendet Larry Snelling and Mayor Brandon Johnson walk out to speak to members of the press on June 18, 2024, outside Stroger Hospital, following the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Jai’Mani Amir Rivera at the Oakley Square apartment complex in Chicago.
Chicago police work at the Oakley Square apartment complex on June 18, 2024, where 7-year-old Jai’Mani Amir Rivera was shot and killed. “For the past three days, the Area 3 detectives homicide team working this case has been fully focused on bringing justice to Jai’Mani and his family,” Snelling said.
Jai’Mani was shot around 3 p.m. Tuesday in the 2300 block of West Jackson Boulevard as he walked out of his family’s apartment to visit a next-door neighbor, officials previously said.
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