Pendleton was shot just blocks from her school after being dismissed early following exams. Another student, who is in serious condition, was shot in the leg and taken to Corner’s Children’s Hospital.
Police say a group of teens were waiting for rain to let up under a canopy at a park when a man opened fire, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
“As usual, the bad guy aims, but he never
hits the other bad guy . . . He hits the one that hurts the most to
lose,” said Chicago Police Officer Damon Stewart, 36, Hadiya ’s
godfather. “I changed her diapers, I played with her growing up. My
heart is broken.”
The shooting happened about three blocks
from King College Prep, where Hadiya attended high school, played on the
volleyball team and was a majorette with the band. The park where she
was killed is a little less than a mile from President Barack Obama’s
Kenwood home.
“She went to the inauguration. She was
working on some sort of exchange program, where she was going to go to
school in Paris,” Stewart said. “She was a great student.”
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