On the afternoon of December 4, 2020, gunfire broke the ordinary rhythm of West Station Street in Kankakee, Illinois. Officers were dispatched around 1:50 p.m. to the 1300 block after reports of shots fired, and they arrived to find Patrick Chism, 32, male, suffering from gunshot wounds inside a parked vehicle. He was rushed to a local hospital, but he did not survive.
As investigators pieced together what happened, another detail sharpened the tragedy: an 8-year-old girl had been in the
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