A 14-year-old girl shot and critically wounded in the Austin neighborhood last week died Monday afternoon, records from the Cook County medical examiner’s office show.
Police officers had responded to a call of a person shot on the first block of North Lorel Avenue around 8:15 p.m. last Monday and found the teen girl shot in the buttocks. She was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said at the time.
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A witness at the scene said the girl was shot after an argument among several people. A 50-year-old woman who suffered a stab wound to the left shoulder at the scene was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where she was listed in good condition, police said.
The medical examiner’s office identified the girl as Charity Johnson. Johnson lived a few blocks away, also in Austin, according to the office.
Johnson’s aunt, Shwanda Bell, said there is a “long journey ahead” for Johnson’s mother in a GoFundMe intended to cover medical bills and support the grieving family.
“She will never get to see her baby girl dancing … doing her hair, laughing,” Bell wrote.
The girl underwent numerous surgeries during the week she was hospitalized before dying, Bell wrote. Now, her mother has “lost her heart forever,” Bell added.
