Chicago woman wounded in mass shooting at her 25th birthday party is going to hospice care
08/20/25 at 03:10 AM
Chicago woman wounded in mass shooting at her 25th birthday party is going to hospice care
CBS News; by Sara Machi; 8/17/25
After being critically wounded in a mass shooting in Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood that killed her father and two others, Mariah Vera's body has held on for two and a half years. But her family says that time is running out, and they need help from the public. Vera's family is preparing to move her to hospice care at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center ... Family members said Vera was shot while trying to protect her father after an uninvited partygoer caused trouble at her 25th birthday party.