26, and Derren Sorrells, 22, were both charged with first-degree murderand attempted murder in the death of Aldridge.
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Aldridge, Wade’s first cousin, was hit by gunfire Friday afternoon as she pushed her 3-week-old daughter on a stroller in Chicago’s south side, police said. According to law enforcement, the suspects were targeting a for-hire driver.
Chicago Police Superintendent, Eddie Johnson is frustrated with the violence in Chicago, especially after Aldrige’s shooters being repeat offenders. ABC News reported that the dozens shot included a 7-year-old girl and a 36-year-old woman who were attending a vigil for someone who had been shot and killed previously.
Numerous neighborhoods on the city’s South and West sides where the violence is concentrated struggle with gang membership, high unemployment and poverty.
August has been Chicago’s most violent month Chicago in twenty years.
“The city of Chicago is hurting”, Wade tweeted to his six million Twitter followers.
Nykea Aldridge, a first cousin of National Basketball Association star Dwyane Wade, was caught in the middle of gunfire on August 27, 2016, in Chicago, and fatally shot.
Gun violence is widespread in Chicago, and it appears to be growing. “Four kids lost their mom for NO REASON”. Friends and family will come together to pray for healing for those grieving the loss of Nykea Aldridge and for peace for the city at large. When Tapper noted that police say many guns from Indiana make their way into the city, Pence replied: “In Indiana, we know what most Americans know, is that law – that firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens makes our communities more safe, not less safe”. Not for me and my family but for the future of our world.
He followed that by writing, “These young kids are screaming for help!” The NBA star’s nephew Darin Johnson was shot twice in the leg in 2012, but recovered.
Police believe the Sorrells brothers meant to shoot the driver of a vehicle that ferried Aldridge to the school where she was attempting to register her child. “I forgive them”, she said. “And the tragedy of a mother pushing her child on the streets of Chicago being shot and killed, as Nykea Aldridge was, just breaks my heart”.
IN governor Mike Pence sidestepped questions on Sunday morning on CNN’s State of the Union show about the flow of guns into IL from his state, as the USA presidential campaign delves into the issue of Chicago violence.
She was brought to Stroger Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead, Sweeney said. He had been released just two weeks prior to Aldridge’s death. “Unreal. #EnoughISEnough.” Chicago has been plagued by gun violence for years, especially in a few areas of the South and West sides of the city. “We’re going to try to help these people to transform their minds and give them a different direction”.
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Aldridge was one of 67 people shot in Chicago this weekend, 10 of them fatal, according to Jordan Owen of the Chicago Sun-Times. “We send our deepest condolences to the entire Wade family during this hard time”.
