Published April 20. 2021 12:05AM
Sarah Freishtat, Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas and Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO – The 7-year-old girl killed Sunday afternoon while with her father in a McDonald’s drive-thru was a first-grade student who attended a Chicago public school in Humboldt Park, and Chicago detectives are investigating her fatal shooting as possibly targeting her father, according to police.
Jaslyn Adams, 7, was shot six times Sunday as she and her father waited at the McDonald’s in the Homan Square neighborhood on the West Side, a preliminary police report states.
A responding police officer took the gravely injured child in a squad car and rushed her to Stroger Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 4:39 p.m. Her father, 29, with whom she had been in an Infiniti sedan at the time of the shooting, was shot once in the lower back, the report states. He also was taken to Stroger in serious condition.
Adams was killed Sunday afternoon while sitting inside of a vehicle in the drive-thru of the restaurant. Her father, who was wounded in the shooting, was potentially the intended target, according to police, and an investigation remains ongoing into the circumstances of the attack.
As the community continues to come to grips with the tragedy, 22-year-old DeShawn Nelson partnered with McDonald’s to honor Adams’ memory by handing out 300 Happy Meals to children in the nearby community as part of the memorial event.
“I’ve got a nephew, and he needs to feel safe around here,” Nelson said. “He should be safe to come to McDonald’s.”
Police have identified the father as 29-year-old Jontae Adams and his daughter as Jaslyn.
The shooting happened, in broad daylight, around 4:18 p.m. local time in the Windy City’s Homan Square neighborhood, Chicago police told Fox News. A McDonald’s employee who asked not to be named told the Chicago Sun-Times that two people got out of a gray car in the drive-thru and started shooting at Adams’ car.
Jaslyn, who had three siblings, was struck “multiple times” to the body. The dad was struck in the torso.
An on-scene police unit transported the father and daughter to John Stroger Hospital where she was pronounced dead. The father is in serious condition.
Endless Horror: Chicago 7 Year Old Girl Targeted and Shot Repeatedly Chicago, IL A 7-year-old girl was killed and her father was seriously wounded in a shooting Sunday afternoon as they were getting food at a McDonald’s drive-thru in the Homan Square neighborhood.
The father, Jontae Adams, 28, and his daughter, Jaslyn, were in a silver Infiniti about 4:20 p.m. at the McDonald’s, 3200 W. Roosevelt Road, when they were shot, Chicago police said. A McDonald’s employee, who asked not to be named, said two people got out of a gray car and started shooting at the victim’s car.