When she was in sixth grade, Sandra Parks wrote an award-winning essay about gun violence and crime in her hometown, Milwaukee.
This week, two years after she described how “we are in a state of chaos,” she was fatally shot when someone outside fired a gun at her home and a stray bullet went into her bedroom.
The shooting happened Monday as Sandra, 13, was watching television at the time, her sister, Tatiana Ingram, told the television station WISN.
“My sister took it like a soldier: She just walked in the room and said, ‘Mama, I’m shot,’” Ms. Ingram said. “She was only hit one time, in her chest. The bullet wasn’t even for her.”
iHmajed on November 22nd, 2018 at 07:53 UTC »
“My sister took it like a soldier: She just walked in the room and said, ‘Mama, I’m shot,’” Ms. Ingram said. “She was only hit one time, in her chest. The bullet wasn’t even for her.”
No one wants to be in that position.
Just casually sitting in the living room when your sister comes in with a bullet in her chest.
NuclearShadow on November 22nd, 2018 at 07:51 UTC »
What a tragic and needless event to occur. I cannot imagine how it feels to lose a child.
welfarecuban on November 22nd, 2018 at 07:26 UTC »
Milwaukee has been a very violent city for a very long time - more than 50 years at this point - and its local leaders refuse to do anything about it. At some point, you have to wonder if that is merely incompetence, or if they flat-out don't care that people are getting shot in their city.