Chicago baby shot while dad changes diaper
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(CNN) - What kind of chance did little Jonylah Watkins of Chicago really have?
When her mother was pregnant with her, the woman was shot in the leg, news reports say.
And Monday, just six months into her life, looking up at her dad as he changed her diaper in a minivan, Jonylah was shot multiple times. It about was 1 in the afternoon as paramedics rushed the child to Corner Children's Hospital.
Jonylah died Tuesday.
Police are looking for the killer, who jumped into a blue van after the shooting on the city's South Side and drove away.
The shooter "was firing at the father, and exclusively at the father," Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said.
He added that no one has come forward to help police.
"We don't have one individual who's stepping up to help us," he said. "We don't have cooperating witnesses."
The father, Jonathan Watkins, is in serious condition at Northwestern Hospital, but he was able to give a brief phone interview to the Chicago Sun-Times.
"I was trying to help. I was trying to help. I was trying to help her," he told a reporter shortly after learning that his baby had died from her wounds. "They told me she didn't make it."
Investigators are considering a variety of angles.
"We're not dismissing this is any form as gang violence," McCarthy told reporters Tuesday.
Patricia McGowan, who lives near the scene, told NBC Chicago that she was at a salon when shots rang out. "I just heard like a lot of shots and skid marks, so that's when I ran to the corner," she said.
"There is always gunshots and crime in the neighborhood, always drug activity in the neighborhood. ... It's heartbreaking," she said. "We're looking for a place to move out immediately because that could have easily been me coming from the bus."
Baby Jonylah's death is just the latest episode of gun violence in Chicago. There were 513 homicides in the city in 2012, a nearly 15% increase from 448 homicides in 2011.
Jonylah's death follows the January high-profile shooting death of Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old who was killed when a gunman opened fire on a group of young people on the South Side. Just days before she was killed, the teen performed in an event related to President Obama's inauguration. Police said Pendleton was an innocent bystander.
"It's never been a regular day in Chicago when it comes to our children dying this way," said Diane Latiker, a Chicago mother of eight children who became a CNN Hero nominee for her work trying to keep kids away from violence.
"Hearing about this baby -- I was so outraged. It just is so beyond," she said. "I will stay outraged but the problem is that people in our community are not speaking up, they are not speaking at all. We are not vocal enough. We're too silent."
6-month-old shot during diaper change
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(CNN) - What kind of chance did little Jonylah Watkins of Chicago really have?
When her mother was pregnant with her, the woman was shot in the leg, news reports say.
And Monday, just six months into her life, looking up at her dad as he changed her diaper in a minivan, Jonylah was shot multiple times. It about was 1 in the afternoon as paramedics rushed the child to Corner Children's Hospital.
Jonylah died Tuesday.
Police are looking for the killer, who jumped into a blue van after the shooting on the city's South Side and drove away.
The shooter "was firing at the father, and exclusively at the father," Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said.
He added that no one has come forward to help police.
"We don't have one individual who's stepping up to help us," he said. "We don't have cooperating witnesses."
The father, Jonathan Watkins, is in serious condition at Northwestern Hospital, but he was able to give a brief phone interview to the Chicago Sun-Times.
"I was trying to help. I was trying to help. I was trying to help her," he told a reporter shortly after learning that his baby had died from her wounds. "They told me she didn't make it."
Investigators are considering a variety of angles.
"We're not dismissing this is any form as gang violence," McCarthy told reporters Tuesday.
Patricia McGowan, who lives near the scene, told NBC Chicago that she was at a salon when shots rang out. "I just heard like a lot of shots and skid marks, so that's when I ran to the corner," she said.
"There is always gunshots and crime in the neighborhood, always drug activity in the neighborhood. ... It's heartbreaking," she said. "We're looking for a place to move out immediately because that could have easily been me coming from the bus."
Baby Jonylah's death is just the latest episode of gun violence in Chicago. There were 513 homicides in the city in 2012, a nearly 15% increase from 448 homicides in 2011.
Jonylah's death follows the January high-profile shooting death of Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old who was killed when a gunman opened fire on a group of young people on the South Side. Just days before she was killed, the teen performed in an event related to President Obama's inauguration. Police said Pendleton was an innocent bystander.
"It's never been a regular day in Chicago when it comes to our children dying this way," said Diane Latiker, a Chicago mother of eight children who became a CNN Hero nominee for her work trying to keep kids away from violence.
"Hearing about this baby -- I was so outraged. It just is so beyond," she said. "I will stay outraged but the problem is that people in our community are not speaking up, they are not speaking at all. We are not vocal enough. We're too silent."
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everybody be standin in line & shit to get into chicago, aint they?
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
For a start... don't be in a fucking gang... if you don't want your baby getting shot by some other fucking idiot in another gang. And if you WANT to be in a gang... you are too fucking stupid to be a parent bacause only stupid people bring little babies into the gang environment.
Be a parent... or be a gang member... pick one or the other. You should not be both.
Hail, Hail!!!
What he said!
The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08
Easy to say don't do this and don't do that from the comfort of one's safe protected home
with a life of bells and whistles. That is not helping to solve the problems
in our communities under siege.
Plus, these dumbass shooters need to learn better aim.
so, got any solutions of your own?
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
I thought I read recently that he was not in a gang. Speaking of Chicago, yesterday I also read that someone else in Chicago was shot for wearing his hat a certain way. Appearently the shooters incorrectly thought he was in a gang based on his hat.
If the baby had a gun, she could have protected herself.
Hail, Hail!!!
sad situation this is.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
and violence. The Ceasefire program uses ex gang members who work as moderators
or interrupters to help stop violence between gangs on the street.
The city is demolishing buildings, have awareness and outreach programs,
social programs like educating gang members for their GED's. Also making this a city wide problem for all communities and using all the cities agencies involvement.
They are also warning gang leaders they will be facing tougher penalties,
are going to Federal prison not state for longer terms.
The gang problem didn't start overnight, not going to go away anytime soon,
It is a way of life, a way to survive....
It's prison or a casket" these are tough times.
I feel the black on black crime should be addressed by the White House.
obama stopped by after his state of the union address to talk about crime issues in chicago.
If the fetus had a gun, it could have protected the mom.
Hail, Hail!!!