Eight-year-old Mexican girl a victim of gang violence in Chicago

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An eight-year-old girl who recently moved to Chicago from Mexico was shot dead over the weekend, the latest apparent victim of gang violence in the midwest US city.

CHICAGO, United States —

Police said the gunman’s apparent target was a 26-year-old man, a suspected member of the Gangster Two Six street gang, who was hit in the lower back and hospitalized. Chicago, the United States’ third-largest city, led the nation for murders in 2021 with more than 836, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office — the most in 25 years.A GoFundMe set up for the Ortega family said the little girl and her mother had recently moved to Chicago from Mexico to “build their American Dream.” It said she will be buried in her hometown of Los Sauces in the Mexican state of Tabasco.

 

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