A pregnant 17-year-old girl was fatally shot in Chicago's south suburbs on Christmas night, but doctors successfully saved the girl's unborn baby daughter.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Eva Casara of Chicago was found gunned down in the snow between two homes about 8 p.m. in the 1100 block of East 152nd Street in Dolton, Ill. She had been shot once in the back of the head.
Police say they believe Casara was shot somewhere nearby before being brought to where she was found, WGN reports. She may have been there for as long as 40 minutes before being discovered.
Casara died Thursday morning at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where doctors were able to save the teen's baby, who was born between 22 and 25 weeks into the pregnancy, the Chicago Tribune reports.
The baby girl, who has been named Laylani, was born weighing just 1 pound and 5 ounces, according to CBS Chicago, and is in critical condition.
Casara's family is now desperate for answers in the hunt for the teen's killer.
"She's just a shining light. Anywhere she goes, she lights up the place. She's so beautiful, inside as she is outside. Everybody loved her, she had a good heart," Estrellita Casara, Eva's mother, told ABC Chicago of her daughter.
"Please, somebody, anybody, help me with my baby," she continued.
No one is in custody as of Friday morning while an investigation into the fatal shooting, the Chicago suburb's first of the year, continues. Anyone with information is urged to contact Dolton police at (708) 201-3200.
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According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Eva Casara of Chicago was found gunned down in the snow between two homes about 8 p.m. in the 1100 block of East 152nd Street in Dolton, Ill. She had been shot once in the back of the head.
Police say they believe Casara was shot somewhere nearby before being brought to where she was found, WGN reports. She may have been there for as long as 40 minutes before being discovered.
Casara died Thursday morning at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where doctors were able to save the teen's baby, who was born between 22 and 25 weeks into the pregnancy, the Chicago Tribune reports.
The baby girl, who has been named Laylani, was born weighing just 1 pound and 5 ounces, according to CBS Chicago, and is in critical condition.
Casara's family is now desperate for answers in the hunt for the teen's killer.
"She's just a shining light. Anywhere she goes, she lights up the place. She's so beautiful, inside as she is outside. Everybody loved her, she had a good heart," Estrellita Casara, Eva's mother, told ABC Chicago of her daughter.
"Please, somebody, anybody, help me with my baby," she continued.
No one is in custody as of Friday morning while an investigation into the fatal shooting, the Chicago suburb's first of the year, continues. Anyone with information is urged to contact Dolton police at (708) 201-3200.
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