‘They’re just shocked’: Community holds vigil for 3-year-old killed in West Lawn road rage shooting

CHICAGO (WLS) — Mateo Zastro, 3, was shot and killed on Friday evening whereas using within the again seat of his mom’s automotive.

Mateo was the sufferer of what police described as a street rage incident in Chicago’s West Garden neighborhood. On Monday night, his household and their supporters gathered to honor him with a vigil close to their house.

“It wasn’t essential to do what you probably did. You adopted my path house,” mentioned his mom Veronica Zastro. “I wasn’t following you.”

Zastro’s grief has given technique to boiling anger. She, together with the group on the vigil, demanded whoever shot the kid flip themselves in.

“And then you definately determined to plot towards me and my infants, and I cannot sleep till you might be introduced in. I cannot sleep,” Zastro mentioned.

Mateo’s siblings had been within the automotive with him on the time of his demise.

“These ones had been within the backseat and when their child brother dropped to the ground…” she recalled. “My son is scared to return to highschool”

And whereas no arrests have been made, police made it clear that there’s multiple individual on the market who can make them their shooter.

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“Primarily based upon what we do have, I do know I am being a bit bit cryptic, however we do have proof to point out that individuals on the market know who dedicated this act and we ask for them to return ahead, even whether it is anonymously, via a tip,” mentioned CPD Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenhihan

Mateo was not the one baby shot in Chicago this weekend. A 7-year-old boy is at Comer Youngsters’s Hospital, recovering from surgical procedure after being struck within the leg on Sunday morning. He was additionally using behind his dad and mom’ automotive.

The household was, in line with police, arriving at a Roseland church, after they noticed and adopted a person who was allegedly breaking right into a relative’s car. That man was arrested following the incident.

“The 7-year-old is fairly resilient. He dealt with it like a champ. If you consider a seven 12 months previous being shot, what a horrible factor. However, he’s doing high-quality proper now, as high-quality as you are able to do after an incident like that,” mentioned CPD Deputy Chief Larry Snelling.

In response to metropolis information, as of Oct. 1st, 291 teenagers and kids below 19 have been shot in Chicago up to now this 12 months. Thirty-nine of them have been killed.

And whereas police proceed to tout a big decline in total shootings and homicides within the metropolis relative to final 12 months, the variety of youngsters shot and killed in Chicago, is as of Saturday, solely down by one.