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Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl from Chicago, Illinois, was shot in the back and killed while standing with friends inside Harsh Park in Kenwood, Chicago after taking her final exams. [1] As a student at King College Prep High School, she was killed only one week after performing at events for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration.
Blues musician killed in a robbery on Chicago's South Side: Sol Butler: Chicago: 1954-12-01: African-American NFL player and Olympic long jumper shot at a bar where he worked: Malcolm Lee Beggs: Chicago: 1956-12-10: Actor beaten to death with beer and whisky bottles in hotel room: Murder of Maria Ridulph: Sycamore: 1957-12-03
The amateur video footage of the beating, obtained by Chicago television station WFLD, was widely broadcast in both traditional and online media. [8] Largely resulting from the widespread circulation of this video, the story attracted much national attention within the United States, leading President Barack Obama to send U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ...
Chicago teen wrongly convicted of murder based on blind witness finally walks free after 12 years ... Darien Harris was only 17 years old when he was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder in ...
Teen charged with murder in death of 7-year-old Chicago boy struck by random gunfire. June 22, 2024 at 9:45 AM. CHICAGO (AP) — A teenager was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a 7 ...
A Black teenager whose death along a segregated Chicago beach sparked a weeklong race riot in 1919 that left dozens of people dead is finally getting a grave marker. A stone marker is tentatively ...
Regina and Margaret DeFrancisco were two teenage girls who made national headlines for the high-profile murder of Oscar Velazquez, Regina's boyfriend, in Chicago in June 2000. The two women allegedly lured Velazquez to their home in the Pilsen neighborhood, where he was shot to death and his body was wrapped in a tarp and set on fire. [ 1 ]
A Chicago teen was left blind in one eye when a group of miscreants allegedly drove down her street and targeted their victims with a “high-pressured” paintball gun during a random Halloween ...