1 dead after CTA bus shooting

AP:

The Cook County Medical Examiner's office has identified a 17-year-old girl who died after a shooting on a Chicago Transit Authority bus.

The medical examiner's office says Kiyanna Salters was pronounced dead late Sunday night at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Chicago police spokesman John Henry says the shooting happened around 10 p.m. Sunday near East 71st St. and Cottage Grove Avenue on the city's South Side. Initial police reports say a male on the bus quarreled with someone else on the bus, got off, and then fired a shot back into the bus before fleeing on foot. It was not immediately known if the girl was the intended target.

It almost seems pointless doesn't it? If you're just going to fire a shot expect it to hit something. It's not that complicated. Intimidation with a gun could turn into a prision sentence in no-time.

The picture to the left comes from the Chicago Tribune who offered more background on this young lady:

Paramedics took Kiyanna Salters (right), of the 11300 block of South Racine Avenue, to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 10:32 p.m., according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Salters was a student at Julian High School on the South Side, according to WGN-Ch. 9, the same school as 16-year-old Blair Holt, who was similarly shot to death on a CTA bus in May 2007. Holt was the son of a Chicago police sargeant. Two teens have been charged in connection with his slaying.

The shooting happened around 10 p.m. at Cottage Grove and 71st Street on a No. 71 bus that runs from 69th and 112th streets, said Chicago Transit Authority spokeswoman Sheila Gregory.

Well they had to throw in this parallel. Well perhaps that's not the term to use but all the same they had to mention that she goes to the same school as Blair Holt.

I hope they find out who this guy was that was dumb enough to fire this errant shot!