A 15-year-old student who was shot outside Perspectives High School remained hospitalized Thursday as her family called for justice.
Doctors have not given a timetable for when the girl is expected to be released from Comer Children’s Hospital.
“[Doctors] are trying to work and get everything done, get her healed, get her up and going again,” said Pam Bosley, a cousin. “Her mother is by her bedside and they’re just trying to help her through this process of what happened.”
Bosley says her cousin wasn’t the intended target and is someone who enjoys reading, cooking and her family.
“She loves living,” Bosley said. “She’s suffering from this because of what took place.”
“She should not have to be traumatized from this,” Bosley said. “Anytime she hears something drop, or, you know, any type of popping noise, she’s gonna freak out.”
Bosley’s cousin was shot at the beginning of the school day around 7:40 a.m. outside Perspectives High School of Technology and Leadership Academy, 8522 S. Lafayette St. The 15-year-old told officers she was walking with another student outside the school when a black sedan pulled up, at least two men got out and opened fire, according to Chicago police.
While dozens of parents and guardians rushed to the school to make sure their loved ones were OK after the shooting, Bosley and her family received a call saying the girl was being loaded into an ambulance.
“We were terrified. We didn’t know the outcome,” Bosley said. “She was on school grounds, she should’ve been safe.”
While Bosley and her family are focused on being there for her cousin, they condemned the attack and called for anyone with “even the smallest information” to come forward.
“We fight every single day for justice, but right now we just want her to get healed,” said Bosley, who lost her son to gun violence outside a Far South Side church in 2006. “We’re definitely gonna be out passing out flyers, getting the word out, trying to find who did it.”
“You just can’t come and shoot somebody and think you can walk away and just destroy a life,” Bosley said.