Tacarra Morgan, 6, was sitting on her family’s Englewood porch when the shots were fired.
It was a warm July day and Tacarra was outside as her grandfather repaired her bike. She and her cousins liked to play on the sidewalk, her grandpa, Arther Morris, would say later, but for the moment his “little sweet pea” was sitting with her grandparents and mom.
Morris ducked inside the home. Moments later, there was gunfire on the streets. The family ran inside and went into the basement.
There, Tacarra lifted her shirt and said, “Granddaddy, look here. I’m bleeding. I’ve been shot.”
Morris, speaking a few days after the shooting, looked at Tacarra’s wound. Her flesh was “boiling out” on the side of her small body, he said, but she was calm.
A video posted to Facebook showed what happened next: Police and onlookers gathered as a man held the quiet, bleeding girl.
[For more of this story, written by Kelly Bauer, go to https://www.dnainfo.com/chicag...-trauma-gun-violence]
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