The Brief
- Family members say 26-year-old Krystal Cruz was shot and killed while picking up her teenage brother from school in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood.
- Cruz’s grandmother says Cruz leaves behind four daughters between the ages of 6 and 10 years old.
- The family is now pleading for anyone with information or video connected to the shooting to come forward.
CHICAGO – A family is mourning the loss of a young mother after a deadly shooting during what should have been a routine school pickup last week.
Family members said on May 5, Krystal Cruz, 26, was picking up her 16-year-old brother and one of his friends from Peace and Education Coalition High School in the Back of the Yards neighborhood when gunfire erupted.
Cruz’s grandmother, Stella Hernandez, told Fox Chicago that a motorcycle pulled up alongside the vehicle before two people opened fire.…