CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy says the death of a 15-year-old girl appears to be a case of mistaken identity involving gangs.
Hadiya Pendleton died Tuesday afternoon at a park about a mile from President Barack Obama’s home on Chicago’s South Side. Last week she performed at events in Washington for Obama’s inauguration.
McCarty said at a news conference Wednesday that the gunman apparently belongs to a gang that believes the park is their territory. McCarthy says the gunman believed Hadiya and her group may have been members of a rival gang. But police say there’s no indication that’s true.
Police say the gunman shot at the group and then jumped a fence and got into a vehicle. That leads police to believe at least one other person was involved.
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Cleopatra Pendelton cries as she talks with Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy before a news conference seeking help from the public in solving the murder of Pendelton's daughter Hadiya Wednesday, Jan. 30, in Chicago. Hadiya, 15, who had performed in President Barack Obama's inauguration festivities, was killed in a Chicago park as she talked with friends by a gunman who apparently was not even aiming at her. The city's 42nd slaying is part of Chicago's bloodiest January in more than a decade, following on the heels of 2012, which ended with more than 500 homicides for the first time since 2008. It also comes at a time when Obama, spurred by the Connecticut elementary school massacre in December, is actively pushing for tougher gun laws. AP Photo
Police: Girl’s death case of mistaken identity
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