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.”
TTheuns on November 22nd, 2018 at 08:07 UTC »
Shots were fired at her house, and it's considered a stray bullet? Who were they targeting?
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.