CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Chicago Police and community advocates are pleading for information that could help catch whoever shot and killed an 8-year-old girl on the South Side on Labor Day.
Philanthropist Early Walker with the group, 'I'm Telling, Don't Shoot' is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and charges against the person who killed 8-year-old Dajore Wilson.
She was riding in a car with her parents Monday, Sept. 7 near 47th and Union when gunfire meant for others hit her.
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Walker spoke to Dajore's mother, who is devastated about her child's murder.
"She told me that her daughter was looking forward to her first day of school," Walker said. "Now...she is planning a funeral."
Deputy Chief Yolanda Talley said police need the public's help because too many children are being killed.
"What we are seeing in our city is we are having more juvenile victims of homicide," she said. "It should not be trending upward. It should be trending downward, so we are calling out to the community today. Reach out to us. Provide us information, because we need some justice for this family."
Bishop Larry Trotter, of Sweet Holy Spirit Church, urged the community to do the right thing.
"If you know anything about this and you are not speaking up, then you are co-signing a child's murder, or you are participating in a child's murder," he said.
Trotter said he has been pastoring in Chicago for 39 years and things are getting worse when it comes to saving our children. He said the community must declare enough is enough.