The medical examiner’s office has declared the death of a south suburban high school senior a suicide.
Summer Mitchell, 18, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the torso, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office has ruled.
At approximately 11:20 a.m. Sunday the Lansing Police Department responded to the 177th block of Commercial Avenue for a medical emergency, according to a release sent by the village of Lansing.
When officers arrived, they discovered the teenager's body inside. Police confirmed Monday evening she suffered a gunshot wound to the chest, though her death had not been classified as a homicide.
Mitchell’s family says she lived in the apartment with her longtime boyfriend and was supposed to graduate from high school this year, with plans to move to Atlanta and become a police officer.
Mitchell’s vehicle was tracked down Monday night near the intersection of 94th and Everhart on Chicago’s South Side.
“She was a really sweet person,” her father Calvin Mitchell said of his youngest daughter. “She had everything going for her.”
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"She could sing like an angel, god could hear her singing I swear he could hear her," said stepmother Lasaunya Mitchell.
