Girl, 6, Back Home From 2nd Trip To Hospital After Shooting
CHICAGO (CBS) -- After a second visit to the hospital, a 6-year-old girl who was shot in the back while playing outside in Logan Square was back home and doing well.
Jaylene Bermeo was shot during a drive-by in the 200 block of North Bingham Street on June 6, and was released from Stroger Hospital eight days later. She was readmitted less than two days after she went home after having more trouble with her lung, which had collapsed when she was shot.
A spokesperson for Stroger Hospital confirmed Jaylene was released from the hospital Wednesday evening, after spending a week there.
"She is home with her family and doing well," Cook County Health & Hospitals System spokeswoman Alexandra Normington said in an email.
Jaylene, two sisters, and three cousins were drawing with chalk on the sidewalk outside her aunt's home at the time of the shooting.
Prosecutors have said the shooter's gang has been at war with a rival gang in the community, and targeted that house because it had been the focus of rival gang activity, and several rival gang members were outside the home at the time. Jaylene was the only one wounded in the shooting.
A 17-year-old suspect has been charged as a juvenile in connection with the shooting. Prosecutors have said he was identified as the driver of the car in the drive-by.