According to the
Chicago Tribune to men were arrested yesterday in connection with the shooting of Hadiya Pendleton. For those of you who are not familiar with the story Hadiya was a young girl who has brought even more pressure to gun control laws after she was gun down outside of her school just days after performing with her school marching band during the presidential inauguration.
Chicago police picked up the two men, 18 and 20, were picked up over the
weekend, hours after first lady Michelle Obama attended the funeral for
the teenager whose death has become a symbol of escalating violence in
Chicago.
The men were pulled over near East 67th Street and
South Chicago Avenue late Saturday night or early Sunday morning after
detectives canvassed the area of the park where she was shot and killed
Jan. 29 and tracked down witnesses, the sources said.
Hadiya
was fatally shot in Vivian Gordon Harsh Park, about a mile north of
President Barack Obama's Kenwood neighborhood home on the South Side, a
little more than a week after the honor student performed with the King
College Prep band in Washington during inauguration festivities. Two
other teens were wounded.
The shooting in the 4400 block of
South Oakenwald Avenue happened after classes were dismissed for the day
during finals week at King. Hadiya, a sophomore at King, was at the
park with a group of teens, primarily other students from the school,
when a male gunman climbed over a fence, ran to the group and started
firing, police have said. The shooter escaped in what has been described
as a white Nissan vehicle, possibly driven by a getaway driver.
One of the sources said at least one of the men brought into custody
was riding in a Nissan Sentra, one of the two vehicles police pulled
over when bringing the pair into custody. The source didn't know that
Nissan's color.
Police have insisted the teens in Hadiya's
group who had gathered in the park were not involved in gangs. But
police have been looking into whether the gunman may have mistaken them
for rival gang members.
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