Medina tackled Goodman after the shooting. During the struggle, the gun fired again, injuring Goodman above his left eye. He lost sight in that eye, according to Law & Crime.
Neighbors said Goodman had previously complained about children making noise and had confronted Medina about it. Days after the shooting, a judge ordered Goodman held without bail on a charge of first-degree murder.
Goodman says he has no memory of the shooting
At sentencing, Goodman acknowledged taking several doses of ketamine on the day Sarabi was killed. He said he had bought the drug on the dark web after his antidepressants failed to help.
In a statement read by his attorney, Goodman said his last vague memory from that evening was walking through his own front door. He said he did not remember shooting Sarabi.
Medina rejected Goodman’s account after the hearing. He told ABC affiliate WLS that he and others had shouted at Goodman, who kept his attention on the girl.
“He was focusing on killing my daughter,” Medina said.
One of Sarabi’s cousins asked the judge for a harsher sentence. Walton said Goodman would be 83 by the time he could leave prison.
Neighbors remember a girl they called Bibi
Sarabi, known to her loved ones as Bibi, was preparing to return to Reinberg Elementary School. After her death, family members and neighbors gathered for a vigil outside her home. They left stuffed animals and sunflowers at a memorial near the scene.
Her family had already endured another loss to gun violence. Sarabi’s mother, Blanca Miranda, was shot and killed in 2018 at age 29. Neighbors said the family moved to Portage Park shortly afterward.
Rene Aquino, a friend of Medina, recalled how much Sarabi meant to her father. “She was his world,” he said.
