Family heartbroken after Chicago high school student killed in Little Village shooting

Now, household and associates gathered to recollect the lifetime of Tiera 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Franklin simply buried her mom in April and her father was killed when she was solely 5 years outdated.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.

“They inform you they are going out to the shop, you anticipate them to return again house,” stated Franklin’s aunt, Juanita Flowers. “So it is tragic.

A way of remorse is fueling this household’s ache as Flowers stated 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’d’ve been right here, possibly an hour, 45 minutes earlier, she would’ve been within the automobile with me. She would not have been on the location the place it occurred,” Flowers stated.

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

Family members stated she was with different members of the family when she was shot. They rushed her to the hospital, the place she handed away.

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

The household stated the teenager was going into her senior yr, with desires of changing into a lawyer.

“Trying ahead to graduating subsequent yr from Curie Excessive Faculty, wanting ahead to promenade,” Flowers stated.

Police stated an unknown male offender on a bicycle pulled out a gun and shot her.

The motive continues to be unclear.

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

The grins of the mom and daughter duo are eternally 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 stated.

Police stated an individual of curiosity was taken in for questioning. At the moment, no costs have been filed.