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Woman Killed in Chicago Hours After Her Sister Sat Behind Obama on Stage

Feb. 17, 2013 3:27pm Madeleine Morgenstern

President Barack Obama speaks during a visit to Hyde Park Career Academy in Chicago on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. (Getty Images)

An 18-year-old Chicago woman was shot and killed Friday night, just hours after her younger sister sat onstage behind President Barack Obama as he spoke about gun violence.

Janay Mcfarlane was visiting friends and family when she was shot once in the head around 11:30 p.m. Friday in North Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The bullet had been meant for a friend, said her mother, Angela Blakely. Mcfarlane had a 3-month-old son.

Janay Mcfarlane, 18, was shot and killed in Chicago Friday night. (Image source: Chicago Sun-Times)

“I really feel like somebody cut a part of my heart out,” Blakely said.

Hours before the slaying, Mcfarlane’s 14-year-old sister Destini was part of a group of teens who sat onstage behind the president when he delivered remarks at Hyde Park Career Academy.

“Barack Obama said teenagers are killing each other,” Destini Mcfarlane told the Sun-Times Saturday. “He was saying we need to cut down on street violence.”

Mcfarlane’s murder was apparently separate from the four shootings that took place in Chicago within a 90-minute period after Obama left. Those shootings occurred between about 5:55 p.m. and 7:20 p.m.; Mcfarlane was killed several hours later.

In his first extensive remarks about the overwhelming gun violence plaguing his adopted hometown, Obama paid tribute to Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old honor student fatally shot last month in a park days after performing at his second inauguration.

Blakely told the Sun-Times her daughter had been deeply 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 had been on track to graduate from an alternative school this spring and hoped to work in the culinary arts. Her infant son, Jayden, is now without a mother but has a supportive extended family, Blakely said.

“I’m just really, truly just trying to process it — knowing that I’m not taking my baby home any more,” she said.

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RemoteCoderz
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 5:32pm
““I really feel like somebody cut a part of my heart out,” Blakely said.”

He did. Then he got right back on to Air Force One and headed to Florida for another round of golf.

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- Salamander
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 5:49pm
  Wow, the wake of death that follows that man around! If it isn’t drones, it’s the droning!
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 5:25pm
Even Obama and his family no longer want to live in their Chicago home.
They recently purchased a home in Hawaii.

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freenj
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 5:21pm
I’d say Obama is a jinx and everyone should avoid him, and/or you and your family just might get shot. Especially if your from his adopted home town of “wild garlic-chicagoua”.

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OlefromMN
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 5:09pm
Has the Mayor of Chicago (Rahm Emanuel) or the President (That Guy) had any public statement on these latest murders of people closely tied to That Guy? I would think that there would be at least one journalist that may try to get a statement?

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- barber2
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 5:16pm
  They are still hiding from the Jesse Jackson, Jr. Chicago mess !
  
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- OlefromMN
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 5:25pm
  @Barber2,
  
  Yeah, I guess I can kinda see that Capone deal has left them a little “gun-shy”. No need to rush. (sarc.)
  
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showmerancher
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 5:02pm
Oh, the things I could say… but won’t. Sometimes a good up-bringing can be a curse.

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high school drop out
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:54pm
The violence in the cities is simply a symptom of the ‘Culture of poverty” enabled by our Govt.! Guns are only a means to an end. If you look one can see the start of the demise of the family unit among minorities has almost direct correllation to the start of the social welfare programs. And as no one denies that is a contributing factor in the street violence we see today. Simply put, You big govt. types created the monster…Time to admit it!.. Then fix it!..Its your mess!

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Parnell3rd
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:54pm
Sounds like: being Black, living in Chicago, and associating with President Obama is deadly!

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gyro
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:48pm
best5 wshes to the family in their time of sadness

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Tired of Code Names
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:44pm
@keatonc333. Your statistics may be correct with respect to occurrences per capita, however, the methodology is flawed with respect to population density. Further examination of the statistics you cite will lead you to discover that in the lesser populated states, the statistics, taking into consideration the entire population of the state including the rural area’s and the suburbs are quite skewed by the fact that the urban crime significantly skews the ratio. It is quite spectacularly evident when the District of Columbia which is simply an urban city with no rural area’s leads the statistic you are quoting and thus, neuters any reliance on the fabrication and manipulation of the statistics you have read and purport to believe. Please in the future consider the source. However, if you are trying to disarm American Patriots from the ability to defend themselves from the criminals who choose not to follow any laws, I hope the criminals find your house before they do mine. I have a scissor in my house. I do not rely on that to defend me from armed intruders as the dear leader is trying to sell. Nor would I rely on the “scissor” to defend me and my family from a tyrannical government.

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- barber2
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 5:15pm
  TIRED: The radical Left always twists and spins the truth and reality . Remember their ” We are the most transparent administration in American history ” claim ? The reality is : we are an administration in American history . The Twist/ spin / lie is : the ” most transparent.”
  
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MCLOVINIT
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:44pm
The Continuing Saga of the “New Planet Of The Apes”

Meanwhile…on a golf course in Palm Beach, the Emperor
of the Planet of the Apes (EOTPOTA) is annoyed when a
White aide interupts his golf game with sad news of a
girls violent death in Chi-Town. The Emperor’s mood soon
brightens when he’s inspired with an idea of how he can
blame the Republicans for her death! Under his breath,
the Emperor can be heard muttering, “It just doesn’t get
much better than this!”.

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AbrahamsSheepdog
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:36pm
Think the kenya prince may have occult tied to his birth & that “changing” at his fathers and grandfather grave. The curses come out like maggots.

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RAMJR
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:32pm
There are more gang members in America today, than there are men in our military. In fact, our military has been infiltrated by gangs, terrorists, communists and those with agendas to destroy it…and this administration protects and gives them more rights, than even our elderly citizens get.
It is a shame this young girl was murdered, but with the mindset that aids and abets that value, you increase ignorance…and the use of feelings over facts to push agendas.
There is a reason Chicago is one of the most deadly cities to live in…and if you investigate the corruption and what political forces come from that city, nine times out of ten, you can see the reason why ignorance is bliss…Including the media that pushes it.

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NDPINDNT
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:31pm
RE: KeatonC333 I looked as several different sites researching your top 10 state gun deaths and only one fell into your top 5 your states. I don’t trust your numbers, or the states you identify. I think you skewed them, or obtained bad information somewhere. And also, you don’t break it down contributing to suicides, use by hand guns or rifles/shotguns.

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allensmithee789
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:29pm
Another baby momma, now her child doesn’t have a daddy and a mommy. What gang will he end up in ?

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oldsoldier10
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:27pm
Sorry my deepest condolences
However, when you finding the murder, please revoke his gun and concealed carry permits. I am sure Chicago issued the murder proper permits for murder

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MCLOVINIT
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:24pm
She’s dead!
“What difference does it make?” – Hillary Clinton

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TOPOFTHEGAME
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:23pm
Obama and Rahm knows they can’t change Chicago’s death toll, so they want new gun laws to come to near you. If Rahm’s going to have 503 young lives dying in the streets “”so should you”"”…. And the way they do that is take your legal guns rights away. Then the whole country is equal. And yes, it’s a tragedy that this young ladies life was cut short. And that baby who didn’t have a father at home now doesn’t have their mother.

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- oldsoldier10
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:28pm
  and what percent of the murdered are black and killed by blacks?
  
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COFemale
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:20pm
And Democrats think law abiding people are the problem. They are FN idiots everyone of them and I do hope they all rot in hell. I am sick of tired that no one seems to care about blacks shooting blacks in Chicago, least of all Barack Hussein Obama.

Hey it is just criminals shooting criminals, we pay no mind to the riff raff shoot’n each other. We don’t care if some civilian happened to be in the line of fire, pay no mind either when it is a child or a mother with a child. Comes with the territory.

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Baracalypse
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:20pm
She’d likely still be alive if she didn’t live in a progressive liberal democrat Utopia cesspool.
Live Free or Die.

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txgunhand
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:17pm
maybe obama is the antichrist, or at the very least a jihadist. he has done more damage to our country, than a whole brigade of taliban.

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NewCreationDave
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:16pm
Sad, tragic. Unfortunately, a typical day in Chicago life. The article mentions the victim as a mother of a 3-month old. But, um, is there a father in the picture somewhere?

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- COFemale
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:23pm
  Doesn’t sound like it. Probably an absentee father. He can sew his seed, but can’t live up to the deed.
  
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- DEMSfightinwords
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:45pm
  He’s the one holding up a card with numbers on it.
  
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Thundergod
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:12pm
Now the media will show us pictures of sweet innoncent little gangbangers and leave out the fact that they were gangbangers,just to justify disarming law abiding citizens. If you lay down with dogs,you get up with fleas,or maybe shot like a dog with fleas,or is it shot like a dog who lays down with gangbangers? I bet her “alternative school” was for troubled teens who didnt finish school because of their involvement with street gangs or being pregnant by a gangbanger.

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GuruMeditation
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:12pm
Bad Company.

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Keatonc333
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:11pm
Enough with the hating on Chicago!!! here are the stats.. top 10 gun death rates per 100,000.
1. District of Columbia
2. Alaska
3. Luisiana
4. Wyoming
5. Arizona
6. Nevada
7. Mississippi
8. New Mexico
9. Arkansas
10. Alabama
26. Texas
31. Illinois
46. New York
49. Massachusetts
50. Hawaii
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir-death-rate-per-100-000

Eye opening huh? if you look at the first 20, they are all red states with really loose gun laws! excluding the district of columbia…. so to recap.. of the top 20 states with the highest Firearms death rate 19 of them are Red States! while states with stricter gun laws such as New York, Mass, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine all finish in the bottom ten lowest gun related death rates…. hard to argue that!

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- Thundergod
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:24pm
  you are such a douchebag.
  
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- Thundergod
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:32pm
  Those are deaths and not murders by gun. So suicides,accidents,police shootings etc. are all lumped together and dont give you proof that legal gun ownership caused these deaths.
  
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- OlefromMN
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:45pm
  Not only are you comparing apples to oranges Keaton, you are doing so with 2002 stats.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 5:09pm
  OLE: I think the Organizing For Action people have just got to hire smarter Trolls to ‘occupy’ conservative sites. These arrogant Lefties really think we are dumb . Their arrogance far exceeds their common sense , knowledge , and intelligence. So many of the Obama groupies are members of either the ” good job” or the “angry, entitled ” crowd !
  
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Southernsoul
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:10pm
A sad situation, but another gun shot victim in Chicago is a bit like commenting on another drop of water in the ocean. Progressive ideas are not the solution to anything.

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