A man has been arrested in Chicago for shooting a 9-year-old girl in the head. According to witnesses, the 43-year-old man had complained about the noise that the little ones were making in a nearby park.

Michael Goodman (name of the alleged perpetrator of the crime), approached a group of people at 3500 North Long Avenue in the Portage Park neighborhood (Chicago) around 9:40 p.m. last Saturday. There was little Serabi Medina with her father. The father, who was talking to friends in a vehicle, heard a shot and told his daughter to “get on her motorbike and go home,” according to local media reports.

As Serabi was returning home, the father and his friends saw a man come out of a nearby apartment building with a firearm and was heading towards the minor.. Prosecutors reported that the girl's father yelled at the Goodman what he was doing, but he ignored him and continued toward her.. The girl's father ran towards her as he watched the man “raise the firearm, point it and shoot her in the head,” the report said.

After what happened, he rushed towards Goodman to try to stop him.. During the struggle, the alleged perpetrator of the crime was shot in the face from his own weapon. Witnesses said the man apparently shot the girl in the head because he was annoyed by the noise from the nearby park down the street.

“It just didn't make sense.. none of it made sense. Everyone in the community would tell you that they are just kids having fun playing. Let them enjoy themselves,” a neighbor told the Chicago Sun-Times.. “He saved other people. Who knows what else that man was going to do that night…”, the cousin of Serabi's father also alleged to the local media.

The girl was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition and died a short time later, local authorities confirmed.. Goodman, for his part, was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition and faces a first-degree murder charge.