“This is my baby girl”, Aldridge’s mother, Diann, told the Tribune through sobs as she held a photograph of her daughter. Wade tweeted about the senseless gun violence, the need for more help in the city of Chicago, and that kids are literally crying out for help.
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Donald Trump’s tweet on the shooting death of NBA basketball star Dwyane Wade’s cousin drew scorn and outrage for not including condolences for her death and for misspelling Wade’s first name.
“My cousin was killed today in Chicago”.
The nation’s largest city, NY – which has a population about three times Chicago’s – had 161 homicides in the first half of this year.
During the press conference, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson pointed to the murder as an example of Chicago’s ongoing problems with gun violence.
Derren was actually on parole at the time of the shooting though the Chicago police did not advise of what exactly the charges against him then had been.
Nykea Aldridge, 32, was pushing a baby stroller on Friday when she was shot.
The city is known for having strict gun control, and the violence in the city is frequently used by conservatives in arguments against gun control legislation. Four kids lost their mom for no reason.
“Just sat up on a panel yesterday, The Undefeated, talking about the violence that’s going on within our city of Chicago, never knowing that the next day we would be the ones that would be actually living and experiencing it”, she said.
“That’s not because we’re better than them”, Johnson said of the comparison. Police said he is a driver for hire who apparently made eye contact with the Sorrells brothers and the brothers fired shots at the man as he ran from them.
While Chicago is on track to see as many as 600 murders this year, it does not have the highest murder rate per capita in the US.
“My brother is gay and growing up I know firsthand when those sermons come across the pulpit that rebukes him, he nearly feel like the person don’t love him that made him”, Sir said, adding that “Jesus didn’t come to condemn the world”.
Aldridge was one of 67 people shot in Chicago this weekend, 10 of them fatal, according to Jordan Owen of the Chicago Sun-Times. The NBA star’s nephew Darin Johnson was shot twice in the leg in 2012, but recovered.
The Republican vice presidential nominee would not answer direct questions Sunday about guns from IN coming into Chicago during CNN’s “State of the Union” show.
Here is a look into what the numbers say about Chicago’s violence.
Jones said two people are being questioned by the police about the shooting, and several other people in the vicinity were interviewed. “Instead her life was cut short by gunfire from two convicted felons who were both out on parole”.
“I forgive them. I forgive them”, she said. So people in these communities are carrying guns, because their perceiving the police being less proactive in trying to find people carrying guns, Cohen said.
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“We’re still going to try and help these people to transform their minds and give them a different direction, so this thing won’t keep happening”.
