Posted on 01/29/2013 8:40:15 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
After taking their exams, Hadiya Pendleton and a group of others decided to hang out at a park on Tuesday just blocks away from their high school on the South Side.
But the trip ended in tragedy when the 15-year-old King College Prep student was fatally shot in the back and a 16-year-old boy was wounded in the leg, and remained in serious condition Tuesday night, authorities said. Police said Pendleton was not believed to be the target of the shooting, but that most of those who were in the park were gang members, and that those in the group did not stay on scene to help after the shootings.
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I’m sure more stringent gun laws could have prevented this /s
Have they considered making Chicago a gun-free zone? I’m pretty sure that would put a stop to this sort of thing.
SO this didn’t happen at 3AM or something??
Gangs were involved?? I am shocked, shocked I tell ya!
quick, everybody ignore the truth so we don’t offend people THAT AREN’T GOING TO VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS ANYWAYS.
Guns, Chicago.... that don’t compute-— error-error!
From a news room this morning:
Let’s see black kids, South Side of Chicago, gang violence, nah there is no way to spin it so all the racist Republican voters look bad.. let’s just run another story about Obama pushing immigration reform and how all the Tea Party racists are going to ruin it instead.
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