{"id":168116,"date":"2023-08-10T06:04:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T00:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/man-accused-of-shooting-fatally-chicago-girl-9-in-head-cops\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T06:05:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T00:35:55","slug":"cops-man-accused-of-shooting-chicago-girl-9-fatally-in-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/cops-man-accused-of-shooting-chicago-girl-9-fatally-in-the-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops: Man accused of shooting Chicago Girl 9, fatally in the head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The man arrested has been charged for the shooting death of a nine-year-old in <\/span>Chicago Reports claim that he complained to neighbors about her being too loud.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Goodman has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder. <\/span>Then, you can murder someone. Chicago Police confirmed that Serabi Medina’s death was the cause of their investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Goodman was reportedly upset by the noise, and confronted Medina’s father and the young girl before shooting her in the head on Saturday night outside of her house. <\/span>ABC News<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eyewitness News reported that Goodman, who was also shot by his gun, had to be tackled after the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n

Goodman was arrested by police and taken to a local <\/span>Hospital The condition was described as critical, according to <\/span>Eyewitness news<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The police reported that “the offender suffered a wound from a firearm and was treated at a hospital in the area.” Police said that a weapon had been recovered at the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

The victim was taken to another hospital where she was pronounced dead, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to autopsy findings obtained by the forensic pathologist, her death resulted from a bullet wound in the head. The manner of death, homicide was determined. <\/span>Chicago Sun Times<\/a> said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The victim and her father had been living on the block for about two years and moved to the Portage Park neighborhood after the child\u2019s mother was murdered, according to <\/span>NBC Chicago<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

A vigil in memory of the victim was held on Monday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n

Angee Gonzalez Rodriguez was NBC Chicago’s cousin to Serabi’s dad. She said, “How could you? You cannot kill a child.” “What was it that the child did to you?” I hope that he receives what he deserves. “I hope the book is thrown in his face.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Goodman has to appear before the court for an appearance on bond Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Digital has reached out to the Cook County Courts and the State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office for more information and has not heard back.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has not entered a guilty plea nor obtained legal counsel.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of your family members has opened a business. <\/span>GoFundMe<\/a> Page in Serabi\u2019s name to pay expenses<\/span><\/p>\n

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The man arrested has been charged for the shooting death of a nine-year-old in Chicago Reports claim that he complained to neighbors about her being too loud. Michael Goodman has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Then, you can murder someone. Chicago Police confirmed that Serabi Medina’s death was the cause of their investigation. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":168117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Man-Accused-of-Shooting-Fatally-Chicago-Girl-9-in-Head.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168118,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168116\/revisions\/168118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}