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A memorial is left for 8-year-old Melissa Ortega on Jan. 23, 2022, at the scene of her fatal shooting in the 3900 block of West 26th Street in Little Village, Chicago. Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/TNS
CHICAGO—One minute 8-year-old Melissa Ortega was walking with her mother through their Little Village community Saturday afternoon. The next, gunshots rang out, and mother and daughter broke into a sprint, trying to run to safety in a nearby bank.
