A 2-year-old Chicago toddler died yesterday after being shot in the head while sitting in the car with her family.
Little Cynia Cole better known as “Co-Co”, succumbed to her injury Thursday after a gunman fired a single shot into the trunk of the family’s vehicle.
Police believe the gunman, identified only as 21-year-old man with a record of guns and drugs, was aiming for the girl’s father who they say had ties to a local gang.
Around 11 p.m. yesterday Co-co, her two younger sisters, father and mother stopped at a local residence on the Southside of Chicago so the mother could pick up cigarettes.
After the mother left the vehicle, the gunman appeared soon after and fired the fatal shot that traveled through the trunk into the back seat and into the child’s head.
The girl was taken to a local hospital where she later died.
The gunman has since turned himself in.
