Taylor Diorio was 17 when she was fatally shot on August 18, 2012. She was a passenger in a car that had stopped near the McKinley Park residence of 23-year-old Joseph Sanders. Prosecutors say another passenger briefly exited the vehicle, and Sanders looked out a second-story window; he said a bottle was thrown at him and then fired multiple shots at the car. One bullet struck Taylor in the right side of her head. The driver took Taylor to a hospital, where she later died.

Cook County prosecutors tried Sanders for the shooting and he was convicted of second-degree murder in February 2016. At sentencing in the Leighton Criminal Courts Building, Judge Thomas Gainer imposed a 14-year term in the Illinois Department of Corrections. Taylor was remembered by family as a daughter, sister, and fiancée; a funeral service was held at Salerno’s Rosedale Chapels in Roselle.

If anyone knew Taylor, her circle, or saw the area in McKinley Park on August 18, 2012, please come forward with information.