15-Year-Old Girl Who Performed At Obama's Inauguration Shot Dead In Chicago! - Page 1

Yes, more guns will take care of the problem.

http://globalgrind.com/news/hadiya-pendletong-performed-obamas-inauguration-shot-dead-chicago-photos

Hadiya Pendleton was the friendly girl with the sweet presence at King College Prep in Chicago, one of the top 10 selective enrollment schools. She was a majorette and a volleyball player who had performed with other King College students at President Barack Obama's inaugural events.

But on Tuesday, her life was cut short by a bullet.

Pendleton and a 16-year-old boy wounded in the attack were shot in a park near the school about 2:20 p.m., in the 4500 block of South Oakenwald Avenue, police said.

Most of those who were in the park were gang members, and those in the group did not stay on scene to help after the shootings, according to police. 

The boy remains in serious condition. He was also a student at King.

The incident began when the students decided to hang out at a park, just blocks from their high school on the South Side, after they had taken their exams. A friend of Pendleton's explained that they had been let out early from school, and decided to hang out near the park, which is something they rarely did.

Neighbors said students from King do occasionally hang out at Harsh Park and that students were there that afternoon before the shooting took place.

A group of 10 to 12 teens at the park had taken shelter under a canopy there during a rainstorm when a boy or man jumped a fence in the park, ran toward the group and opened fire, police said in a statement this evening.

The attacker then got into an automobile and fled the scene.

Those in the group were not cooperating with police, however, and investigators had no detailed descriptions yet of either the attacker or the vehicle in which he left. Central Area detectives were investigating, and they had no one in custody as of about 8:20 p.m.

Police at first believed both victims' conditions had stabilized by a little after 3 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala. But unfortunately, Pendleton passed away from her wounds.

At this time we are keeping Pendleton's family and friends in our thoughts and prayers. This senseless gun violence has to stop. The time is now.

 

How very tragic for this child, her family, and the country.

Gun control policies don’t work because they disarm citizens while keeping criminals in possession of guns. Chicago’s strict policies have effectively given lawbreakers a monopoly on weapons in many parts of the city that the Chicago Police Department cannot or will not police

.http://www.policymic.com/articles/22622/gun-control-is-why-chicago-murder-rates-are-skyrocketing/360124
 

CHICAGO — Not a single gun shop can be found in this city because they are outlawed. Handguns were banned in Chicago for decades, too, until 2010, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that was going too far, leading city leaders to settle for restrictions some describe as the closest they could get legally to a ban without a ban. Despite a continuing legal fight, Illinois remains the only state in the nation with no provision to let private citizens carry guns in public.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/us/strict-chicago-gun-laws-cant-stem-fatal-shots.html?_r=0


Now comes the arm twisting and the money,

http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases/2013/january_2013/mayor_emanuel_callsoncommercialandinvestmentbankstopressuregunma.html

I just posted something a few days back about a gang shooting in a medium size city who didn't even know they had gangs for years, heads in the sand, oh they're just a bunch of kids.
Chicago has been the gangland capitol since before street names.
Strict gun laws created this haven and they can't control crime.

 

It does have to stop. So sorry, her family must be  .

What a cute little heart icon Bee.
So much sincerity.