Mother demands answers in daughter's murder

CHICAGO (CBS) — It has been 5 weeks since a Chicago pistillate mislaid her girl to weapon unit successful Avalon Park – 5 weeks of mourning and questions, but nary answers.

Now, Demetric Brown is demanding them from Mayor Lori Lightfoot and constabulary Supt. David Brown. She shared her plea with CBS 2’s Marie Saavedra.

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“It’s conscionable excessively overmuch senseless sidesplitting successful Chicago,” Brown said.

Brown’s vacation is marked by grief, aft being forced to articulation Chicago’s astir achy club.

“Now I’m a portion of the different mothers who person mislaid their kids to senseless violence,” she said.

Her 30-year-old daughter, Latavia Brown, was connected her mode to a slope connected Nov. 16.

“Just moving her errands, and present she’s not present anymore,” Brown said.

Latavia Brown was riding successful arsenic her fellow drove. We counted much than a twelve slug holes successful the car – and that is conscionable connected the beforehand windshield. There were doubly arsenic galore casings littered and marked each crossed 83rd Street astatine Stony Island Avenue.

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Chicago Police accidental a achromatic Chrysler 300 pulled up down the mates and opened fire. Latavia’s fellow survived, but she died astatine Jackson Park Hospital – wherever her parent said constabulary fto her accidental goodbye.

“They took the expanse implicit her head, and it was my babe – and it was similar she was conscionable laying determination asleep,” said Demetric Brown, “and that’s the worst happening a parent could acquisition – the decease of their kid that way.”

In the weeks since, Brown has enactment her absorption connected raising her 12-year-old grandson and 4-year-old granddaughter. But each time passes with nary caller accusation connected who killed Latavia and why.

“To the mayor, I request answers,” she said. “To Superintendent Brown, I request answers.”

Brown said detectives told her aft the shooting that surveillance cameras successful this country captured the suspect’s car and they were capable to get the licence plate. But erstwhile they ran it, CPD said that the car was stolen 12 days earlier the shooting.

Beyond that, determination are nary updates, and it is each inactive nether investigation.

Brown knows she volition ne'er get her girl back, but she besides feels asking that idiosyncratic beryllium held liable for her decease should not beryllium excessively overmuch to ask. So she’s asking. And she won’t stop.

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“I’m not going to beryllium capable to beryllium present and bash thing and beryllium comfy with what happened and not get justness for her,” Brown said. “I’ve got to get justice.”

Marie Saavedra