Nine-year-old Serabi Bibi Medina was fatally shot on August 5, 2023, outside her home in the 3500 block of North Long Avenue in Chicago’s Portage Park neighborhood. She had been riding her scooter and had just returned from buying ice cream when a 43-year-old neighbor, Michael Goodman, approached her armed with a handgun. Serabi’s father, Michael Medina, warned her to go inside and then struggled with the gunman; during that struggle Goodman was shot in the face with his own gun. Serabi was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition and later pronounced dead from a gunshot wound to the head.

Goodman was arrested at the scene and taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition. He was charged with first-degree murder and denied bond at a bond hearing on August 8, 2023; no motive was revealed at that hearing. The neighborhood described the killing as unprovoked; a vigil and an outdoor memorial with flowers, stuffed animals, and candles followed, and family members recalled Serabi’s love of riding her scooter and her kindness.

Did anyone in Portage Park see Serabi or the ice cream truck that evening and have information to share?