{"id":1528476,"date":"2022-06-25T11:19:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528476"},"modified":"2022-06-25T11:19:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:19:06","slug":"5-month-old-girl-shot-dead-as-chicago-begins-another-bloody-and-tragic-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-month-old-girl-shot-dead-as-chicago-begins-another-bloody-and-tragic-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"5-Month-Old Girl Shot Dead As Chicago Begins Another Bloody And Tragic Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F5-month-old-girl-shot-dead-as-chicago-begins-another-bloody-and-tragic-weekend%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528476&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The weekend got off to a tragic and bloody start in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/chicago\">Chicago<\/a>, where a five-month-old girl was among three people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/crime\">shot dead<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Little Cecilia Thomas was riding in the backseat of a car Friday evening in the Windy City\u2019s South Shore neighborhood when another car pulled up alongside it and its occupants opened fire, the Cook County medical examiner\u2019s office said. The baby was shot in the head and died later at Comer\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/2022\/6\/24\/23182396\/south-shore-shooting-5-month-old-girl-shot-killed-luella-avenue\">Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke with the mother. That\u2019s a five-month-old baby,\u201d crisis responder Andrew Holmes told the newspaper. \u201cNine months she carried that baby, nourished that baby. And it take a damn fool to discharge that weapon and take baby\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A shooting in Chicago left a 5-month-old baby shot and killed while sitting in back of a car in South Shore. The medical examiner ID&#8217;d her. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gYEu1mWcjH\">https:\/\/t.co\/gYEu1mWcjH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC7Chicago\/status\/1540662387728035840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Outside the hospital, heartbroken family members gathered to grieve and vent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope y\u2019all catch whoever did this,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/2022\/6\/24\/23182396\/south-shore-shooting-5-month-old-girl-shot-killed-luella-avenue\">a woman was heard shouting into her phone<\/a>. \u201cTook that damn baby\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two men, one 21 and the other 45, were found shot later Friday night and both died at area hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the fatalities, 13 more people were shot Friday around the violence-plagued city. One man was shot in the eye while driving and made it to the Chicago Medical Center, where he was expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>But it was the little girl\u2019s death which left people shaken. With no arrests in the shooting, police were reviewing surveillance camera footage in the hopes of identifying the culprits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope you don\u2019t have no children yourself,\u201d Holmes said. \u201cBecause if you do, you shouldn\u2019t sleep at night, you should just turn yourself here knowing you got to look at your child every night. And you done take this lady\u2019s child,\u201d he said. \u201cThe baby rested right now, but ain\u2019t gonna be no peace with that family the rest of their life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ja\u2019Mal Green, a Chicago mayoral candidate, announced a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the shooter being arrested and convicted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/chicago-shootings-violence-this-weekend-juneteenth-2022\/11984629\/\">Last weekend<\/a>, 61 people were shot in Chicago, including 10 fatally.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Lori Lightfoot last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chicago-dem-mayor-lori-lightfoot-announces-10-pm-weekend-curfew-for-minors-following-latest-teen-shooting\">announced a 10 p.m. weekend curfew<\/a> for minors as the city struggles to stop violent crime. The announcement followed the shooting death of a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Chicago saw a near-record number of shootings and homicides, according to statistics released earlier this year. There were 797 homicides, the most since 1996, and a total of 3,561 shootings.<\/p>\n<p>So far, there have been 297 homicides in Chicago this year, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/graphics.suntimes.com\/homicides\/\">Sun-Times database<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend got off to a tragic and bloody start in Chicago, where a five-month-old girl was among three people shot dead on Friday night. Little Cecilia Thomas was riding in the backseat of a car Friday evening in the Windy City\u2019s South Shore neighborhood when another car pulled up alongside it and its occupants &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1511016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}