CHICAGO (AP) — A 14-year-old Chicago girl accused of killing another girl in a dispute over a boy tried unsuccessfully to fire a gun before someone fixed it for her and handed it back to her so she could open fire, prosecutors said Tuesday. The alleged shooter appeared at the hearing on a first-degree murder charge in Monday's slaying of 14-year-old Endia Martin. According to prosecutors, the suspect went to a residence in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the city's South Side around 4:30 Monday afternoon to continue a fight that began on Facebook. According to a statement read in court and relayed later by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, the girl pointed the gun at a group of people standing on a porch and pulled the trigger, but it would not fire. The overall crime rate fell last year to a level not seen since 1972, and the number of shooting incidents involving victims 16 and younger dropped 40 percent in 12 months, city officials say.
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