A South Side man was charged Thursday with the shooting death of a high school student aboard a CTA bus -- one day after he surrendered at a South Side church, authorities said.
Milton Wardlaw, 24, was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of Kiyanna Salter as she rode the No. 71 bus with her cousin Sunday night, prosecutors said.
Salter's family spent part of Thursday planning her funeral. They also expressed thanks to the family of Wardlaw, who turned himself in after an anguished plea from his mother.
"I'm glad they put it out there like they did," said Sonja Nelson-Wilcox, Salter's aunt. "I know it was hard, but sometimes you have to show tough love in order for these kids to do right. By her showing tough love, he did the right thing.''
Salter's shooting was captured on security cameras on the bus. Detectives released a photo of Wardlaw in the hours after the shooting, prompting his mother to plead with him to come forward.
Salter was a senior at Julian High School who loved fashion design and basketball. She and her 18-year-old cousin were on their way home from visiting a sick aunt when she was shot on the bus at 71st and Cottage Grove.
Jasmine Wilcox, the cousin riding with Salter on the bus, said Salter was shot after two passengers got into an altercation.
Wardlaw, of the 7100 block of South University, is scheduled to appear today in bond court.
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