A Chicago teenager was left blind in one eye during a random Halloween attack in which a group of criminals allegedly drove down the street and targeted the victim with a “high-voltage” paintball gun.
According to WLS, Vicki Murillo, 19, and her friend were walking through the Clearing West community when they were chased by an unknown vehicle, which then made a U-turn and drove toward the teens. It is said that he went back.
The paintball crew is said to have removed a cell phone from their car and then fired rapid-fire paintballs at the young women, attacking them multiple times.
“They were lying on the floor crying and the hot chocolate next to them was on the floor,” Vicky's brother Adrian told the magazine.
Murillo and his friend were seriously injured and bleeding on the ground before paramedics took them to a local hospital.
Adrian said he was admitted to the emergency room after one of the bullets hit him in the face, rupturing his eyeball. GoFundMe Prepared for his sister.
Murillo underwent emergency eye surgery, but his eyesight had not yet recovered, and doctors were skeptical that his vision would ever return.
“Unfortunately, the chances of that happening are very low. Even if vision were to be restored in that eye, it would be very blurry,” Adrian told ABC Chicago.
The girl has several surgeries scheduled for her injuries, including one on Friday, but the family will have to “wait and see” the results and remain “as optimistic as possible.” are.
Murillo said he is frustrated by the senseless crime in his neighborhood, with several neighbors coming forward saying they were shot with paintballs on Halloween.
“That was crazy to me because they were wearing pink and fluffy stuff. I don't know who would target a young woman like that,” he said.
The shooting occurred in the Clearing West area, about two miles west of Chicago's Midway Airport.
Murillo's family was informed that two other people were involved in similar incidents around the city that same night.
Videos shared online show armed hooligans terrorizing the streets of several Chicagoland neighborhoods, with at least one man leaning out of a window and throwing paintballs at unsuspecting victims. Multiple shots were seen being fired.
One video showed an unknown gunman firing several shots at a person waiting at a bus stop as the victim tried to evade the powerful bullets, the video said. Obtained by CBS Chicago.
Growing evidence from a video reported by a neighbor and a similar description of the car led Adrian to believe there was malicious intent in the attack that left his sister hospitalized.
“It was malicious. They knew what they were doing,” the guardian's brother told the outlet. “So they went out that day specifically for that.
“Same car, same color, everything is the same,” he added. “So this person has been in this area for quite some time.”
Adrian said he is working with detectives to find the gunman believed to be responsible for blinding his sister and hopes the suspect will be charged with serious crimes.
“We want to charge as high as possible because otherwise you're going to hurt your wrist,” Murillo said.
