CHICAGO (AP) — A man and teen have been ordered held without bail in the shooting death of an 8-year-old Chicago girl, who was walking and holding her mother’s hand when she was shot in the head by a gunman authorities say was targeting someone else.
Melissa Ortega died Saturday in a shooting a Cook County Circuit Court judge said showed “an absolute disregard for human life.”
Prosecutors say 27-year-old Xavier Guzman was driving a car that stopped in the Little Village neighborhood on the city’s Southwest Side after seeing a rival gang member flash gang signs. Sixteen-year-old Emilio Corripio then got out of the car and fired, prosecutors said. Corripio is being charged as an adult.
