Police are searching for a man who killed a 15-year-old girl on the South Side.The shooting happened on the 6900 block of South Campbell Avenue around 9:15 p.m. Monday.
A high school sophomore studying to be an architect was shot to death Monday night as she stood with friends in a backyard in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side, police said.
Fifteen-year-old Porshe Foster was standing with two other teens, 16 and 18, when someone walked up and opened fire around 9:20 p.m. Monday in the 6900 block of South Campbell Avenue, according to police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro, citing preliminary information.
Porshe was struck in the back and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in critical condition, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford. She was pronounced dead there at 10:06 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Police said the shooting apparently was gang-related but that Porshe did not appear to be the intended target. A red vehicle was seen driving around the block several times before the shooting, but authorities have not determined whether it was related to the shooting, police said.
No suspects were in custody this morning.
Along with the two male teens, Foster was also with her best friend at the time of the shooting, said her mother, Bonita Foster, in an interview Tuesday morning.
She briefly remained conscious after the shooting and made it inside a nearby home before collapsing, her best friend told Bonita Foster.
After learning of the shooting when Porshe's best friend called Monday night, Bonita Foster rushed to Advocate Christ, but her daughter was pronounced dead shortly after.
Foster was a sophomore at Ace Technical Charter High School, where she played basketball and volleyball and was studying to be an architect, her mother said.
She leaves behind her parents, five older sisters and an older brother.
Bonita Foster asked for prayers for her family, and she urged anyone with information about the shooting to talk with the police.
“This thing has to be stopped,” she said. “It’s foolishness. The only thing that was accomplished is that you just ripped our hearts out of our chests. And for what?”
Community activist Andrew Holmes, who talked to the girl's family at the hospital, said the girl was with friends at the time of the shooting.
"They were in the backyard there, socializing there, and this individual came up, discharged the weapon, and the bullet struck here," Holmes said.
He said Porshe's mother has four other daughters "but this is the baby daughter. I spoke with the family this morning and it's real tough. . .This is somebody's child killing another child."
Anybody that knows any information, just turn this information over," Holmes said. "Someone that was in that crew knows who fired and discharged that weapons and took that young lady's life."
WGN-TV contributed
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