Teen shot at softball game: 'It could've been a lot worse'

[WinThemAll]

Teen shot at softball game: 'It could've been a lot worse'

By Ryan Haggerty and Jeremy Gorner Tribune reporters

7:11 a.m. CDT, April 7, 2011
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Kiara Faniel knows she’s lucky.

The 14-year-old freshman softball player at Morgan Park High School was shot in the right leg after a game Tuesday on the Far South Side.

“It could’ve been a lot worse,” Faniel said Wednesday while sitting on the front porch of her Far South Side home with her leg wrapped in a thick bandage and her 5-year-old niece at her side.

Faniel, a right fielder and shortstop on Morgan Park’s “frosh/soph” team, said she was shot just after 6 p.m. while she and her teammates celebrated with members of the varsity team after watching them beat Chicago International Charter School–Longwood in Oakdale Park.

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[amanda_cake]

This is one of the craziest stories I've ever heard... wonder if he was an extremely crazy softball daddy?

 

[Amy in AZ.]

I think it was random gun fire, but I don't know that. It was the south side of Chicago. We had a similar incident here this week, but a teenager was killed after someone fired a shot into the car.

 

[Mr T]

Sheesh. In Cali there was just recently the Dodger "fans" who beat a father of 2 into a brain-damaged coma.

Ted

 

[Amy in AZ.]

An update and it was softball related. Teen charged with wounding softball player - WGN Radio

 

[bobbyb]

That is just nuts. And when in the world did shooting someone become "aggravated battery with a firearm". Does that equate to attempted murder? Geeeze.

 

[D.G. OutLaws 16u]

I have to throw a huge Kudos to her coaches...As tragic as this is what a great attitude/outlook this female athlete has.."It could have been worse" Being a member of an athletic team helps young kids so much with coping with defeats in life. Her parents should be very proud of her....I know I would if it were my kid.