Chicago police are hoping surveillance footage will help them solve separate Saturday shootings that seriously wounded two girls, aged 11 and 12. Kanari Gentry Bowers and Takiya Holmes were both shot in the head on Saturday evening. Now, both girls are on life support.
Anti-violence advocate Andrew Holmes says he is Takiya’s cousin. He says the girl’s grandparents and mother have been at her bedside.
"But she doesn’t have any brain activity. She hasn’t responded to anything yet."
Kanari was shot while playing basketball outside of her elementary school, which is equipped with several cameras. Ald. Ray Lopez says he believes one of them captured the intended targets of the shooting. Andrew Holmes says they need to cooperate with police.
"You know who was shooting at you, that’s in both of these cases, you know who was shooting at you. Stand up and speak out."
Holmes and Lopez say they’ll be out at a community rally with police officers tonight at the corner where Kanari was shot.