Chicago shooting: Man charged with killing high school student in Little Village, police say

Anthony Heredia, 19, shot and killed Tierra Franklin in Little Village on Friday, police mentioned Sunday.

On Saturday, household and buddies gathered to recollect the lifetime of Tierra Franklin.

Franklin simply buried her mom in April and her father was killed when she was solely 5 years outdated. Now, her household is planning her funeral after she was shot and killed.

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“They let you know they are going out to the shop, you anticipate them to return again dwelling,” mentioned Franklin’s aunt, Juanita Flowers. “So it is tragic.”

A way of remorse is fueling this household’s ache as Flowers mentioned she was too late Friday selecting up her niece earlier than the 17-year-old was shot and killed.

“I really feel like if I might’ve been right here, perhaps an hour, 45 minutes earlier, she would’ve been within the automotive with me. She would not have been on the location the place it occurred,” Flowers mentioned.

Chopper 7 HD was above the scene that afternoon the place police mentioned the lady was shot in her torso close to a quick meals car parking zone within the 2500-block of South Kolin within the metropolis’s Little Village neighborhood.

Family members mentioned she was with different relations when she was shot. They rushed her to the hospital, the place she handed away.

“I used to be at dwelling ready on them to return again,” mentioned Larhonda Sanderson, one other aunt of the teenager. “They by no means got here again.”

The household mentioned the teenager was going into her senior 12 months, with goals of turning into a lawyer.

“Trying ahead to graduating subsequent 12 months from Curie Excessive College, wanting ahead to promenade,” Flowers mentioned.

Police mentioned Heredia was on a bicycle when he pulled out a gun and shot her.

“We simply misplaced her mom in April. We’re not even nowhere close to healed from that,” mentioned Krystina Ross, a household pal.

The grins of the mom and daughter duo are ceaselessly stitched collectively in a quilt, whereas their deaths go away behind a ache a lot too arduous to repair.

“I simply want she was nonetheless right here. I want this might have by no means occurred,” Sanderson mentioned.