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Tragedy: 15-Year-Old Honors Student Who Performed at Obama’s Inauguration Gunned Down in Chicago

Jan. 30, 2013 11:17am Erica Ritz

15 Year Old Hadiya Pendleton Who Performed at Obamas Inauguration Shot Dead in Chicago Park

(Photo: Police Handout via The Dailiy Mail)

A 15-year-old honors student from Chicago who just got back from performing at President Obama’s inauguration has been shot dead by thugs in a local park, police say.

King College Prep sophomore Hadiya Pendleton was a majorette and a volleyball star, her friends add, who was part of a band and drill team that played for President Obama.

The New York Daily News continues:

Hadiya Pendleton was among approximately a dozen teens taking cover from the rain in a local park at 2:30 p.m. when a gunman jumped a fence and opened fire, according to reports. Pendleton and other King College Prep students had been dismissed from school early due to exams.

The gunshots sent the entire group running out of the park in a panic, authorities say. Pendleton and a 16-year-old boy were both hit and collapsed about one block away.

Pendleton was shot once in the back and later died at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital. The wounded boy was in serious condition Tuesday night, according to the Chicago Tribune. [Emphasis added]

Neighbors were horrified by the news.

“There has to be an end to it. It’s just too much. The children cannot go to school. They’re in fear,” Bonita O’Bannion reportedly said.

Police say Pendleton wasn’t affiliated with a gang herself, but most of the people she was with at the park were. None of them stuck around to help her, or provide information for police.

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Comments (185)

truthnstuff
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:27pm
Just the criminal class, fed by the Dumbocraps, doing what comes naturally for them. How did they get away so fast with their pants riding on their thighs

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momrules
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:24pm
I see the Blaze censors are hard at work today. What is wrong with the word savage to describe savage behavior?

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kindling
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:17pm
All the wrong people have guns in Obamaville and this will get worse as long as guns are taken from law loving and respecting people. Just accept it.

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Beachmastermax
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:16pm
Inner city Chicago, Syria, what’s the dif?

There is a people problem there. A fatherless waste land, a baby momma Eden.

Wait until hyper inflation hits. You won’t want to be anywhere near there.

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banjarmon
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:15pm
Blame the people of Chicago for electing the same people to office and expecting different results!!!
Ya can’t fix STUPID!!!

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RealAmerican2
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:10pm
You never hear Obama talk about gang violence and thuggery in his home city and Chicago is at the TOP of the gun violence list!

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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:08pm
What do you expect from Chicago!! Tons of gun laws and the criminals are the only ones with them or killing with them! Gun laws don’t stop criminals, or crazies from killing.. I hear that the entitlement cut backs are making things worse in Chicago, anyone else hear that?? So just imagine our world when the entitlements come to a stop! God help us!

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Just_Us2
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:05pm
Clearly this is a rural white male problem dealing with gun ownership. As soon as all of the white males give up their guns this will stop……..here’s some more koolaid….drink up.

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benchstump
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:03pm
it’s so obvious.government makes it extremely easy for people who create another life to not have to be reponsible for that new life.the new lives are looking for role models,mentors,guidence through life.they end up turning to thugs for help.government creates this problem then acts as if it is the solution.no.no.no.no.wrong. Government is the problem.

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Tri-ox
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:03pm
Chicago is a GUN FREE zone, thanks to liberals, so, this story must be a hoax – it is simply not possible for anyone to be “gunned down” in Chicago.

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crystalsky
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:02pm
That girl was a young bright beautiful girl. I am sorry about the lost of her and the others losing their family’s We as a people have to stop fighting. We need Our 2nd amendment rights and our constitution.
We Need GOD even though the politicians seem to need anything but GOD not 1 of us know the day and time we will leave this earth. Nor what age death does not care about the age. we need Freedom and liberty and justice for every color. But we need GOD.

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- momrules
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:32pm
  Yes we need God. Turning back to Him as a nation is the only thing that can save America.
  
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Zeb
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:00pm
Chicago police reported the seizure of 7,400 guns used in crimes, or that were unpermitted, in the past year — nearly double the 3,285 reported for New York City for the same time frame. That’s despite the fact Chicago has the toughest gun-control laws in the nation, prohibiting sales within the city and, until the Supreme Court found it unconstitutional in 2010, banning handguns.

According to The New York Times, Chicago is battling a wave of gun-related violence that belies the claims of gun-control advocates — that tightened gun regulations stop crime. Chicago has a ban on assault weapons and on high-capacity magazines; Illinois is the only state in the nation without a public right-to-carry law for private citizens.

Yet Tuesday, the paper reported, a 15-year-old girl was killed in a shooting, bringing the city’s total for gun-related deaths for 2013 to 40. Last year alone, the city saw 500 homicides, according to the paper.

Chicago police, meanwhile, report they have confiscated 574 guns since Jan. 1, and 124 of them in the past week alone.

IT IS GETTING SO HARD TO FIND A GUN MAYBE WE SHOULD GIVE THE ILLEGALS A DRIVERS LICENSE

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- Zeb
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:24pm
  The city may be nearly 2,000 miles from Mexico, but the country’s drug cartels are so deeply embedded in Chicago that local and federal law enforcement are forced to operate as if they are “on the border,” according to Jack Riley, special agent in charge for the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
  
  Because of Chicago’s location in the heart of the United States, its large Mexican population and its abundance of street gang activity, drug cartels have designated the city as one of its main hubs of operation in America, Riley told TheBlaze in an exclusive interview. Inevitably, the increasing presence of cartels has also contributed to the Windy City’s skyrocketing violent crime rates, the DEA boss revealed.
  
  “My opinion is, right now, a number of the Mexican cartels are probably the most organized, well-funded, vicious criminal organizations that we’ve ever seen,” said Riley.
  
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lizaz
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:00pm
Why aren’t those self-righteous politicians having that gun-grabbing hearing in DC today discussing the daily gun violence in Chicago????? Maybe they let it go on because it serves their purpose to destroy the 2nd Amendment for law-abiding citizens. Or the officials in Chicago are incompetent…..probably both!!!

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Uechi
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:00pm
If only firearms were illegal in Chicago this wouldn’t have happened. Oh wait, Chicago has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country. Another sad commentary on a young child cut down by illegally armed thugs who will never obey laws gun or otherwise. A Gun Free Zone in action.This useless death makes me furious.

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nocalifornia
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:59am
So let me get this straight, I have to give up my God given rights because of black on black gun violence in the most gun regulated city and state in the nation. How will taking second amendment rights from law abiding citizens and not the criminals/gang bangers make me or anyone else safe? I have not heard a credible argument from anyone on the liberal socialist constitution dismantlers side.

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KEEPINTHESKEERON
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:59am
Violence in America is not a gun problem. It is a demographic problem.

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RWNJ01
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:58am
All urban areas should be designated NFZ’s

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DissenterKnight
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:57am
I’m curious, when the ABP went out, did it direct officers to look for a gun, or a person?

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spfoam1
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:56am
The gun laws in Chicago helped her out as much as her “friends did. “Chickens coming home to roost” comes to mind……I can’t remember who said that, and where they are from. Can anyone help me out?

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- barber2
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:00pm
  Was it Rev. Jackson ? Hmm. No he was active in Florida / Hoodie versus Zimmerman Trial by Media …let’s see….
  
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barber2
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:56am
A beautiful, talented young girl killed by gangs ? If Obama does respond to this Chicago, home-turf issue, he will probably just use it to promote his Far Left agenda to ban gun ownership instead of dealing with the deep racial, gang, drug, criminal issue which is at the heart of this Chicago violence. Valerie Jarrett, are you there ? Agenda person ? Obama needs to play the Race Card here in Chicago and use his influence to ” change” which desperately needs changing and which he could have far greater credence than any white politician . Will he deal with this gang mess honestly ?? Let me guess…

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Disabledvet
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:53am
So which law abiding citizen shot this girl, oh wait it says a gang banger thug jumped the fence and shot, so tell me again which law would have kept this from happening, how about seeing if this thug had ever been arrested and which judge let him out or off, put the blame whhere it belongs, the legal system killed this poor girl by not enforcing the laws against gang members.

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FightingBear
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:52am
Is this yet another mis-leading headline?

I’m sure this person wasn’t gunned down because Chicago doesn’t allow it’s citizens to own guns. She may have been shot with a Bow and Arrow or a poison dart, but not a gun. Editors please make the correction to this mis-information.

Lord God make your presence known to this family in the midst of this most difficult time. My prayers are with them.

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MCON29
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:52am
This was probably a descent neighborhood at one time. A few black people moved in and the racist whites took their money and ran to the suberbs. This left the neighbor hood in poverty and resulted in high crime and black on black gun violence. This is just another direct result of racism. SARC

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Brasil2520
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:51am
Ahh yes, the beauty of diversity moving to a neighborhood near you, enjoy the show !

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TEIN
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:47am
If there was only a federal law that would have prevented this criminal from performing this act!!!!

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- barber2
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:58am
  Democrat solutions to all problems : A.) throw more money at it or B.) pass more laws to ban “criminals” from doing it or C.) do both A and B.
  
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