Johnson also said that Chicago residents should be frustrated and hopes that the arrests bring some sort of closure for the Aldridge and Wade families. We can start the work today and hopefully eventually you know, we can stop it. Reporter: His own cousin nykea Aldridge gunned down on the south side.
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Both men are gang members who were on parole at the time of the shooting, according to Anthony Guglielmi, a Chicago Police spokesman.
Two men approached another man nearby and opened fire, according to police.
Police charged two brothers who have deep ties to a gang with the shooting death of the cousin of Chicago Bulls star Dwyane Wade, officials said Sunday. She wasn’t the intended target, police said.
At 3:30 p.m. Friday, Aldridge, 32, was walking away from the Dulles School of Excellence, 6311 Calumet Ave., where she was enrolling her child.
The two suspects, 22-year-old Derren Sorrells and his 26-year-old brother Darwin Sorrells, are both convicted felons out on parole.
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“She wasn’t bothering anybody, just going to register her kids in school – and bullets that fly around and have no name made a decision to find its way to her head”, Aldridge’s aunt and Dwyane Wade’s mother Pastor Jolinda Wade said outside the hospital on Friday. He was sentenced to 6 years in January of 2013 and was released from jail early in February of this year.
Wade and his mother, Jolinda Wade, just this week spoke on an ESPN panel about gun violence in the United States and its effect on poverty-ridden places like the South Side of Chicago, where the majority of residents are black. Mourners talked about her love of fashion, writing and her four children – the youngest of which was just born on August 1.
Dwyane Wade denounced the shooting as “another act of senseless gun violence” on Twitter.
Meanwhile, Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has been courting controversy by using the death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin to claim popularity among African-American voters. At a news conference on Sunday, the AP reported, police Cmdr. “Unreal”, Wade said on Twit- ter.
The Chicago Tribune keeps an up-to-date map detailing where people were shot in Chicago, broken down by community.
One of Trump’s highest profile supporters defended the tweet, calling it fair comment considering that Chicago, which has always been governed by the Democratic Party, has some of the worst gun violence in the country.
The questions came after the shooting death of Nykea Aldridge, a cousin of National Basketball Association star Dwyane Wade. The nation’s third-largest city has recorded more homicides than NY and Los Angeles combined in 2016.
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“Too soon she was taken away from us”, said mother, Diann Aldrige, expressing her sorrow.
