LOGAN SQUARE — Police and community residents are hosting a "positive loitering" event Tuesday on the block where a 6-year-old girl was shot this month.
The event is intended to be both a show of force by officers as well as chance for neighbors to come together.
The get-together will include a police roll call on the 2100 block of North Bingham Street.
The event starts at 6:30 p.m. and is expected to last about 45 minutes.
"We are hoping to get a large community support since the unfortunate incident occurred," said Rocio Varela, director of community outreach for the 1st Ward.
Alderman Proco Joe Moreno (1st) and Fabian Saldana, the acting commander of the Shakespeare police district, are both expected to attend.
Moreno's office and the Shakespeare district held a similar event June 14 at the corner of Armitage and Richmond following a shooting that killed a man near that intersection in early June.
Prosecutors said the shooting of 6-year-old Jaylene Bermeo, who was re-admitted to Stroger Hospital last week and was upgraded to "good" condition Monday, was part of a gang war.
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The house where the girl was shot in front of was shut down by the city three days after the shooting.
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The homeowner, a relative of two long-time occupants of the house, agreed to keep the house vacant following the city's action to shut it down and will be selling the home, according to his attorney.
Varela said the idea of hosting a positive loitering event in the neighborhood was brought up at a Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS) meeting a few weeks before the shooting, but things had been relatively quiet in the neighborhood at that point.
"Since things were pretty quiet we all thought we didn't really need one," she said. "Now that this has happened we definitely wanted to do something."
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