CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A 7-year-old girl was killed and her father was seriously wounded in a shooting Sunday afternoon while they were parked in a McDonald’s drive-thru in the Homan Square neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side.
According to Chicago police, 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams and her father, 28-year-old Jontae Adams were sitting in a silver Infiniti around 4:20 p.m. at the McDonald’s in the 3200 block of West Roosevelt Road when they were shot.
A McDonald’s employee, who asked not to be identified, told police two people got out of a gray car and started shooting at the victim’s car.
Jontae Adams frantically called his mother, Lawanda McMullen, after the shooting.
“He said, ‘Ma, come get me. They just shot my baby,’” McMullen recalled.
According to Chicago police, the girl, who was shot repeatedly, was rushed by officers to Stroger Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Her father was shot in the torso and also taken to Stroger, where his condition was listed as serious, police said.
Hours after the shooting, the McDonald’s parking lot was littered with more than 20 orange cones, marking shell casings. Bullet holes could be seen in the rear end of the silver sedan and two bullet holes could be seen in the rear passenger seat window.
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Onlookers gathered just outside of the police’s caution tape marveling at the audacity of the shooting.
“Unbelievable, they did this in front of all those cameras,” one man who asked to remain anonymous said. “These kids are getting bold.”
Jaslyn’s aunt, Tawny McMullen, said her niece was a “beautiful” and “really sweet child.”
“She was just the sweet and outgoing; really talkative; really lovable,” McMullen told CBS 2.
McMullen said Jaslyn was best friends with her 8-year-old daughter.
Lawanda McMullen said her granddaughter loved to dance and make TikToks.
Joslyn was a student at Cameron Elementary School. She was nicknamed Pinky “because she was bright” and pink was her favorite color, family members said.
Outside Stroger Hospital, family members begged for an end to violence.
“Put the guns down,” Tawny McMullen pleaded as tears streamed down her face. “Our kids want to play, my kids can’t even go out the door because of [the violence.] Please put the guns down, please. My 8-year-old baby says she don’t even want to go outside to play because she’s scared she’s going to get shot. This has gotta stop.”
Other community activists, including an emotional Andrew Holmes, also called for a ceasefire.
“You just took away somebody’s queen. You just took away a mother’s daughter. You just put hurt on the father — for what?” said Holmes, who called the shooting “senseless.”
“Every parent has taken a child to McDonald’s to get something to eat. Not to get some bullets. To the shooter, why? Why? If you had any kids, have you ever taken your kids to McDonald’s?”
Marvin Edwards, president of 100 Men Standing, a Cabrini-Green group advocating against gun violence, encouraged anyone with information relating to the shooting to come forward.
“We are sick and tired of this. It makes no damn sense,” Edwards said. “Whoever pulled this trigger on this young lady and took her life, trying to get something to eat from McDonald’s, whoever housing these individuals, turn these people in . . . We are pleading with you, do not let this go undone. Turn them in right away. This family are going through living hell right now because of the acts of some fools.”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke out Sunday night about the shooting on Twitter, saying she was “heartbroken and angered” and calling for an end to “the epidemic of gun violence.”
People can leave anonymous tips by calling 1-800-U-TELL-US or by messaging CPD’s text line at 274637.
No arrests have been made.
(WBBM Newsradio and the Sun-Times Media Wire & Chicago Sun-Times contributed to this copy.)