The father of a 9-year-old girl slain in Englewood is refusing to cooperate as police question two suspects in the shooting, police sources say.

Police Supt. Jody Weis said this morning the shooting, which also wounded the girl’s father and two of his friends, was gang-related and he credited the neighborhood for helping investigators.

Sources said the father may have been an intended target.

Chastity Turner was washing the family’s pit bull terriers with her father on the side of the family’s apartment building when a van pulled up and someone began shooting. The girl was struck in the neck and her father, Andre Turner, was wounded in the arm and leg. Two friends of the father were also hit.

No matter what the “reverends” will come out and say about needing more police on the streets or how many times they march pleading for stricter gun control — especially in the city that already bans handguns that’s in the one of two states that doesn’t allow concealed carry — the violence will never end and the quality of life will never get better in neighborhoods like Englewood if its residents put their gang affiliations before their own flesh and blood.