So... no mention of who they think shot her
Did they call the police?
Snitches get stitches.
Police said at 7:02 p.m., Natalia was on the sidewalk when a light-colored vehicle pulled up and an unknown number of people exited. Those people then took out guns and fired shots her direction, police said.
Police said just after 9 p.m. that a person of interest was being questioned in Natalia’s death. No one had been charged.
It’s a tired headline in Chicago. Two weeks ago, 3-year-old Mekhi James was shot and killed while riding in a car in South Austin. Last weekend, 1-year-old Sincere Gaston was shot and killed while riding in a car in Englewood, and 10-year-old Lena Nunez was shot and killed when a stray bullet entered her grandmother’s home in Logan Square.
Natalia’s parents saw those faces and never imagined that their own 7-year-old daughter would become one of them.
“I mean, who wants to bury their child?” Nathan Wallace said. “It should be the other way around.”
Nathan Wallace said he does not want to see police scaled back. He said he wants more police in city neighborhoods, but he wants officers to do their jobs.
He also said he wants to see more justice, and he wants to see the people behind the shootings caught and held accountable.
“They’re getting a slap on the wrist,” he said. “There’s too many people doing this.”