By Townhall Chicago News Staff
A Carol Stream teenager was shot and killed at a Halloween party near Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, according to a local newscast aired Thursday.
Gianna Detloff, a 19-year-old North Central College freshman, was visiting a friend at the university when she was shot at a backyard gathering, the broadcast reported.
A visitation for Detloff is scheduled for 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday at Glenbard North High School, according to the newscast.
Community members in Carol Stream have displayed pink ribbons in Detloff’s memory. “That town gets together,” one community member said on the broadcast.
No arrest or suspect information was included in the broadcast report. Bloomington police had not released additional details on the circumstances of the shooting as of Thursday morning.
Additional remarks attributed on-air to local officials and family friends were not clearly identified by speaker in the broadcast and are not included here pending confirmation of who made them.
