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Chicago Police Hope Surveillance Footage Will Help Solve Saturday Child Shootings

Chicago police are hoping surveillance footage will help them solve Saturday shootings that seriously wounded two girls.

11-year old Kanari Gentry Bowers and 12-year old Takiya Holmes were both shot in the head, and they're now on life support.  Anti-violence advocate Andrew Holmes says he is Takiya’s cousin. He says the girl’s grandparents and mother have been at her bedside.

 

"But she doesn’t have any brain activity. She hasn’t responded to anything yet," he says.  

 

Kanari was shot while playing basketball outside of her elementary school.  The area has several security cameras, and Alderman Ray Lopez believes one of them captured the intended targets of the shooting.

 

Andrew Holmes says witnesses need to cooperate with police.  

 

"You know who was shooting at you, that’s in both of these cases, you know who was shooting at you. Stand up and speak out."

 

Holmes and Lopez attended a community rally with police officers Monday at the corner where Kanari was shot.