A second person has been charged in the shooting death of 12-year-old Dalilah Batey Sunday night at a Calumet Heights home.
Tyler Q. Wright, 19, was arrested Sunday night in the 9200 block of South Harper Avenue where the shooting happened and charged with felony child endangerment resulting in death, Chicago police said.
Wright, who lives in the same block on Harper, was scheduled to appear before a Cook County judge at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse Wednesday.
According to court documents, he was one of many on the scene of the homicide and was placed into custody by responding officers when they heard “conflicting stories” about the shooting and also because Wright had “access to multiple firearms.”
On Tuesday during a late morning hearing at the Juvenile Detention Center, a 14-year-old boy appeared before a judge, charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Dalilah.
Prosecutors said a group of people including the boy and Dalilah were in a bedroom in a home in the 9200 block of South Harper Avenue, smoking, drinking and passing around and “playing with” a couple of firearms.
When the boy dropped one of the guns, which was a “ghost gun,” on the bed, it discharged, hitting Dalilah in her head, Kimberly Ferrell, assistant state’s attorney, said.
Witnesses flagged down police officers and Dalilah was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 9:19 p.m., police said.
