...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...police said. A 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 frantically called his mother, Lawanda McMullen, after the shooting.
"He said, ’Ma, come get me. They just shot my baby,’" McMullen recalled.
The girl, who has three siblings, was shot repeatedly and was taken by coppers to Stroger Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
He's dead, Jim!
police said.
Her father was shot in the torso and also taken to Stroger, where his condition was listed as serious, police said.
Police said the shooting was believed to be gang-related, and less than three hours later, two people were shot in their car at a Popeyes in Humboldt Park, which Sherlocks believe is connected to the McDonald’s shooting.
A 33-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman were in a blue Chevy Malibu, having just ordered food, at the Popeyes drive-thru window at Chicago and Kedzie, when a gunman pulled up in a car at 7:12 p.m and opened fire. The man was shot in the left leg; the woman in the abdomen. Both were taken to Stroger Hospital, with the man at death's door, the woman in critical.
Both shooting scenes were littered with shell casings.
At the McDonald’s parking lot, onlookers gathered just outside of the police’s caution tape, stunned at the audacity of the shooting.
"Unbelievable, they did this in front of all those cameras," one man who asked to remain anonymous said. "These kids are getting bold."
Jaslyn’s aunt, Tawny McMullen, said her niece was a "beautiful" and "really sweet child."
McMullen said Jaslyn was best friends with her 8-year-old daughter.
Lawanda McMullen said her granddaughter loved to dance and make TikToks.
Jaslyn was a student at Cameron Elementary School. She was nicknamed Pinky "because she was bright" and pink was her favorite color, family members said.