06-28-2012, 02:40 PM
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GANG WORLD INSTEAD OF DISNEY WORLD! :(
CHICAGO (FOX Chicago News) -
A 7-year-old girl shot and killed on the West Side Wednesday night.
After several shootings in her neighborhood, Heaven Sutton had begged her mother to move.
Sutton looked forward to escaping on a family vacation to Disney World next month.
Just after getting her hair styled for the trip, Heaven was gunned down in front of her home and mother.
"She'd been looking forward to it, and they took my baby's life," Heaven's mother, 38-year-old Ashake Banks told the Chicago Sun-Times.
Police said two men shot into a group of people at around 10:40 p.m. in the 1700 block of North Luna Avenue in the Austin neighborhood.
Fire department officials said the child was taken in critical condition to the Loyola University Medical Center. She was pronounced dead at 11:16 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
A 19-year-old man was also shot in the ankle, but is in good condition.
Outside Loyola, Banks told the Chicago Sun-Times she was finishing up with the day's work selling candy under a canopy in her front yard when the shooting happened.
Heaven was playing with other children outside when Banks said she heard five or six shots and hit the ground. Heaven ran toward the house and Banks believes her daughter was shot as she ran.
Banks, who has three older children, boys aged 11, 15 and 18, said she thinks the shooting was gang-related and that the intended target was someone nearby.
Heaven asked her mom if they could move because she was worried about all the shootings in the Austin neighborhood, Banks recalled.
"She had been telling me ‘mom, let's move, let's get out,'" Banks said.
Heaven was going to be a second-grader at Josephine Locke Elementary School and Banks described her as a "diva" who loved fashion and high heels.