A 16-year-old girl was gunned down in a quiet Chicago suburb Saturday morning — and authorities have neither caught nor identified her suspected killer.
The victim, identified as high school sophomore Lilly Bova, was killed in the Cook County neighborhood of Glenview around 11 a.m., authorities said.
Sheriff’s deputies are searching for a person of interest but have revealed few details about who may have killed the well-liked teen.
“While we cannot share further details at this time, this was an isolated incident and does not appear to pose a risk to the general public,” the Cook County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement — without revealing further details about the murder that has shocked her loved ones in the peaceful, affluent village.
Bova was “bright, positive and mature beyond her years,” her school principal said in a message to students and parents viewed by Fox 32.
“Though Lilly was a quiet spirit, her teachers and those who knew her best said she loved deeply … Her kind-hearted and optimistic nature will be sorely missed,” wrote Dr. Barbara Georges, principal of Glenbrook South High School.
