A 21-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of a 16-year-old girl in South Holland, one of two shootings reported in the village this week, South Holland police Chief Shawn Staples said Friday.
Kennisha Laing, 21, of Olympia Fields, was arrested at the scene Monday after what Staples called a “very unfortunate” result of a domestic dispute.
Daysha Cazley, of Whiting, Indiana, was pronounced dead at 6:40 a.m. of a gunshot wound to the chest at the Holland Inn and Suites, 1122 E. 162nd St., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
It is unclear what lead to the shooting, Staples said, but police are still investigating.
“We pray for the girl’s family,” Staples said. “Our hearts are with them.”
In a separate shooting, a 28-year-old Hazel Crest man was shot at 11:30 a.m. Thursday in what police are calling a targeted attack, Staples said.
He was shot after leaving a business near State and 162nd streets and treated at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn for not life-threatening injuries, according to the release. Staples said the man’s condition had not changed Friday.