Ulysses Campos, 9, was shot dead at his grandmother’s birthday party in Chicago over the weekend.Photo:GoFundMe
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Just weeks from his tenth birthday, a Chicago boy was shot in the chest while attending his grandmother’s birthday party in Franklin Park, Ill., over the weekend.
A grandmother’s birthday was disrupted in a shooting that took her grandson just weeks before his tenth birthday.ABC 7 Chicago/Youtube
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Javier Murillo, 37, has been charged with first-degree murder in Ulysses’s death, Michael Witz, director of the Franklin Park Police Departmentsaid in a press release Tuesday, calling the child’s murder “a very tragic and sad event.”
It is unclear if Murillo has retained an attorney to speak on his behalf.
No one else was hit during the shooting, police said. Ulysses died at Loyola Hospital in Maywood a short time after the shooting.
“The utter feeling of knowing that he’s lying there and I can’t save him broke my heart,” Otilio Campos, Ulysses’s uncletold ABC7, recalling the shooting.
Otilio Campos described his nephew as “full of life,” adding: “He loved to make people laugh.”
Preparing for Ulysses’s tenth birthday, his father had planned to surprise the avid gamer with a Playstation 5, his uncle said, adding: “Sadly, he never got to see it.”
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source: people.com
