Chicago police say child, 6, dead after shooting

CHICAGO -- A 6-year-old girl was killed Sunday and two teenagers were injured after shots were fired into a house on Chicago's South Side, police said.

The three were in the living room of the single-family house around 6 a.m., when at least one gunman fired shots through a window, police spokesman John Mirabelli said.

No one was in custody Sunday.

"Detectives are still looking at a motive," said Robert Perez, another police spokesman.

The girl, identified by family as Arianna Gibson, was shot in the chest and arm, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. She was pronounced dead at a Chicago hospital shortly after the shooting.

Gibson, who was visiting her grandmother, was sleeping on a couch when the shooting happened.

"She loved to come over here and to be with me," her grandmother Christine Collins told reporters. She described Gibson as a sweet girl who loved to play and was eagerly anticipating starting school on Monday.

Collins said everyone in the house was asleep when they heard shots and fell out of bed.

A17-year-old girl suffered a gunshot wound to the leg, and a 17-year-old male was shot in his side. The teens were hospitalized and reported in good condition Sunday, Perez said. It was unclear if Gibson and the teens were related.

Word of Gibson's death devastated neighbors in the city's impoverished Englewood neighborhood. A day earlier they had had gathered for a back-to-school and block party.

Gibson was among the neighborhood children who played with sidewalk chalk, danced to music blaring from speakers set up in a yard and ate barbecue that neighbors grilled in front of their homes. Friends and family also brought school supplies to donate.

Several young children have recently been killed in shootings in Chicago. Earlier this month a 13-year-old playing basketball in a South Side park died after a shooting. Police said they don't believe the boy was the intended target.