Calumet Heights

A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to six years in prison after prosecutors said he let children handle a gun inside his Calumet Heights home while he was on electronic monitoring, leading to the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Dalilah Batey by a 14-year-old boy.

Court documents reveal infuriating details about the circumstances that led to the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old girl inside a Calumet Heights home earlier this month. Prosecutors say a 19-year-old man invited six children to his house to smoke pot and drink alcohol before they all passed around firearms, one of which discharged, killing the girl.

A Chicago man is charged with pointing a gun at a family while carjacking them in Calumet Heights. Prosecutors said the victims’ ages range from 5 to 76 years old.