A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on Sunday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 16-year-old girl at a park on Chicago’s West Side last week..
Kaylah Love was last seen on Sunday, March 16, when she left to pick up some food at a McDonald’s in Lawndale with some friends. Her family said she never returned home. Her body was found the next evening, stabbed several times and beaten to death, in Horan Park in the city’s East Garfield Park neighborhood.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office determined her death to be a homicide, with the cause being multiple injuries from an assault.
According to CBS News, Love’s family said they learned through detectives that when Chicago police officers initially responded to the scene Sunday, they did not get out of their car. They were told it was nearly 24 hours before police returned to the scene.
“She could’ve been dead or dying when they pulled up, and there may have been an opportunity to save her life,” said her father Robert Love.
