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Another Christmas Day shooting has come to light, this time involving a pregnant teen in Chicago.

17-year-old Eva Casara was found in the Dolton area, bleeding from a single gunshot wound to the back of her head. Casara died just before 11 a.m. Thursday at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, but doctors were able to save her baby.

According to the Chicago Tribune, her grandmother, Fannie Casara, stood by her side, urging her to fight for the life of her unborn daughter.

“You fight hard to save this little tiny baby,” Casara, 63, remembers telling her granddaughter, who lived in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the South Side.”I’ll do everything in my power to help raise your baby.”

The newborn weighed about a pound and half and was named “Baby Doe” for the time being, Fannie Casara said. Her name will be Lailani Paris Casara, the name her mother recently chose when she learned she was carrying a girl, relatives said.

“We’re taking it hour by hour, day by day,” Fannie Casara said.  “She looks just like her mother,” Fannie Casara said. “She’s beautiful, and she’s so tiny, all those tiny fingers and toes.”

Dolton police Chief John Franklin said he does not have any suspects or a motive in the shooting and Casara’s grandmother didn’t say where the victim was going or offer any theories about the crime.

The South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force is investigating the shooting and law enforcement agencies are reviewing video surveillance in the area and interviewing friends of the victim and neighbors of the crime scenes.

Anyone with information can call Dolton police at 708-201-3200. Our prayers go out to the Casara family.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune | VIDEO SOURCE: News Inc.