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发帖数: 10345 | 1 Janay Mcfarlane Dead: New Mom Shot Just Hours After Sister Attended Obama's
Gun Speech
CHICAGO — An 18-year-old Chicago woman was killed the same day her sister
had sat on the stage behind President Barack Obama, listening to him push
for gun control legislation.
Janay Mcfarlane was shot once in the head around 11:30 p.m. Friday in North
Chicago, Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd told the Chicago Sun-Times ().
Mcfarlane, a mother of a 3-month-old boy, was in the Chicago suburb visiting
friends and family. http://bit.ly/12Uoh9b
North Chicago police said two people are being questioned in connection with
Mcfarlane's death, but no charges have been filed.
"I really feel like somebody cut a part of my heart out," Angela Blakely,
Mcfarlane's mother, said.
Blakely said the bullet that killed Mcfarlane was meant for a friend.
Hours earlier, Mcfarlane's 14-year-old sister was feet from Obama at Hyde
Park Career Academy, where he spoke about gun violence and paid tribute to
Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old honor student fatally shot last month in a
South Side park. Police have said it was a case of mistaken identity, and
two people have been charged.
Pendleton's death was one of more than 40 homicides in Chicago in January, a
total that made it the deadliest January in the city in more than a decade.
Pendleton, a drum majorette, had recently performed during Obama's
inauguration and the slaying happened about a mile from his Chicago home.
Blakely told the newspaper that Janay Mcfarlane had been affected by
Pendleton's death.
"She always said after Hadiya Pendleton got killed, `Momma that's so sad,'"
Blakely said. "She was always touched by any kid that got killed. She was
always touched by mothers who couldn't be there for their babies because
they were gone."
Mcfarlane was supposed to graduate from an alternative school this spring,
Blakely said, and wanted to go into the culinary arts.
"I'm just really, truly just trying to process it – knowing that I'm not
taking my baby home anymore," Blakely said. |
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