Takiya Holmes, one of two girls shot on Chicago's South Side over weekend, has died
CHICAGO _ Eleven-year-old Takiya Holmes, one of two young girls shot on the South Side of Chicago over the weekend, has died, according to her family.
Takiya died Tuesday morning, a little more than two days after she was shot in the head by a stray bullet while sitting in a parked car with her mother, aunt and younger brother in the Parkway Gardens neighborhood, her relatives said.
"She was in bad shape and all tests failed," said her cousin, community activist Andrew Holmes. "She had not started breathing on her own."
Another cousin, Rachel Williams, posted on Facebook: "At 8:17 this morning Takiya passed away in her mother's arms."
Takiya was shot around 8 p.m. in the 6500 block of South King Drive as her mother was trying to give a ride to a friend who worked at a cleaners, police said.
Half an hour earlier, 12-year-old Kanari Gentry Bowers was shot while playing basketball with friends at Henderson Elementary School in the West Englewood neighborhood, police said.
She remains on life support, and so far has not responded to her relatives, her family said.
Police said no one was in custody in either shooting.
_Chicago Tribune
