Muralist Milton Coronado's newest art in Little Village honors Melissa Ortega, 8, who was killed by a bullet from a gang shooting in January.
CHICAGO -- Community muralist Milton Coronado has created a new piece of public art in Little Village to honor an 8-year-old killed in a shooting while walking with her mother.
"When I look at it, I feel it's innocent, it's pure and I hope it represents hope and a better life," he said. Coronado's work can be seen throughout the city of Chicago. Much of it is devoted to lives that have been lost too soon. That includes Melissa Ortega, who was shot and killed in January, running with her mother from a hail of bullets from a nearby gang shooting.Ortega had moved to Chicago from Mexico only months earlier, but was struck by a stray bullet near 26th Street and Pulaski Road.
And the mural is personal for him in two ways: as a father himself, and also as a man who lose his father to gun violence when he was just a young boy. "He was killed in the same community, in the same way," he said."And so it's very personal for me to do this.""She said she's very thankful," Coronado said."It captured her, not just the way she looked but her essence, with the whole design, with the colors, and the balloon. Pink balloons were her favorite."
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