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woebedamned
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Damn it All!!!!
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Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:34 pm |
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Girl fatally stabbed in Auburn Gresham
Father pleads for 'criminal' to be found
By Robert Mitchum and Stacy St. Clair | Chicago Tribune reporters
1:20 PM CDT, July 15, 2008
A young girl was stabbed to death Monday night in an alley outside her father's South Side home, according to authorities.
Mya Lyons was found near the 8400 block of South Gilbert Court in Auburn Gresham, authorities said. Although authorities say she was 8, her grandfather, Orlando Barnes, said she was 9.
Chicago police were releasing few details about the investigation, but a police spokeswoman said Mya's father found her and brought her to Jackson Park Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Barnes told reporters that Mya's father, Richard Lyons, came home Monday night and discovered the child was not in her room. At about 11 p.m., her father and neighbors began looking for her. When Lyons went in the alley at the end of the street, Barnes said, he saw his daughter lying there.
Mya's grandmother, Elizabeth Lyons, said there was about a 10-minute period between the time Mya said she was going to bed and the time family members started to look for her. Mya's grandmother said the search took about 15 minutes.
"I want to come out today to let everyone know she [Mya] was loved. And I love this block. That's why I've stayed here for 25 years," Richard Lyons said.
Asked if Mya had been kidnapped, Chief of Detectives Thomas Byrne said, "Right now, we feel she was out of her residence of her own volition." But Elizabeth Lyons said her granddaughter was not the type of child who would leave on her own.
At a news conference near the scene Tuesday morning, police refused to either confirm or deny a statement from the girl's grandfather that she had been raped. Nor would they describe the extent of her wounds.
Byrne said police are continuing to canvass the area and look for possible video that may help them solve the crime, as well as ask residents to report any suspicious activity they may have witnessed.
"We're going to look into any possible angle," he said. "Do we have a suspect in mind right now? No."
"It's an isolated spot [where the body was found]," added Gresham Police District Cmdr. Mike Kuemmeth. "If a person left the scene, somebody had to see it."
The girl's family is cooperating with investigators, Byrne said, adding that the girl's father was not a suspect.
At a separate news conference, Mayor Richard Daley also asked for the public's help. "Let's get this individual and put him in jail for the rest of his life or give him the death penalty," he said.
Daley also defended Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis, who appeared before a City Council committee Tuesday morning to answer questions about a spike in crime. "Don't blame Chicago police. Don't blame Supt. Weis," he said.
A Cook County medical examiner's office spokesman said an autopsy for Mya was scheduled for later Tuesday.
Barnes said Mya had lived in suburban Addison with her mother most of the year. He said she wanted to stay with her father for the summer.
A neighbor, Lakenya Horne, said her daughters were playing with Mya Monday afternoon. She said she last saw Mya about 7 Monday night.
"It's so sad. It makes your soul cringe since it was so close. It could've been any one of our kids," Horne said.
She said her children aren't allowed to play in the alley where Mya was found.
Tuesday morning, a pile of sand covered the area of the path where neighbors say Mya was found. The alley is heavy with trees, brush and weeds and lies below elevated Metra train tracks.
Police roped off most of the block and could be seen going in and out of neighboring houses. "If you have a child, love that child and give that child all that you can, because tomorrow, as I found out, isn't promised," Richard Lyons said. "I believe it takes a village to raise a child. I also believe it takes a village to find a criminal, so please help find my baby's criminal."
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| Katie
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Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:42 pm |
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That doesn't leave a lot of time between when grandma last saw her and she was found 
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| gwen
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Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:25 pm |
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How horrible! 
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| toodles
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Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:50 pm |
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I agree Gwen. How can anyone do these things to another human?
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