Sandra Parks: Anti-gun student, 13, killed by stray bullet

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"We are in a state of chaos. In the city in which I live, I hear and see examples of chaos almost every day. Little children are victims of senseless gun violence..."

Two years ago, 11-year-old Milwaukee schoolgirl Sandra Parks wrote these words in an award-winning essay about the murders in her city. On Monday night, aged 13, she was shot by a stray bullet fired into her home. Her frantic family called 911, but Sandra died at the scene.

The girl's mother, Bernice Parks, told police she had gone to bed early while her children watched TV. She woke to the sound of gunshots shortly before 20:00, and found her daughter bleeding on the floor.

"She said, 'Momma, I'm shot. Call the police,'" Ms Parks told TV station WITI. "I looked at her. She didn't cry. She wasn't hollering. She was just so peaceful... She didn't deserve to leave this world like that."

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett described the situation as "insanity", telling reporters: "Tragically, her death was caused by someone who just decided they were going to shoot bullets into her house, and she's dead. A 13-year-old, on Thanksgiving week, on a school night, in her bedroom, and she died."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46314065

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[Guy Whitey Corngood]

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[TreasonousBastard]

3. CNN's Brooke Baldwin read her essay on air...

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/11/22/sandra-parks-essay-brooke-baldwin-sot-nr-vpx.cnn

[smirkymonkey]

4. So incredibly tragic and unnecessary.

This poor young girl tried to do something about the gun violence in her community and she ended up being a victim of it. Just so sad.

[BlueWI]

5. How horrible.

It's our duty to lead more dialogues and actions in every community that can help address violence.

[dsc]

6. because of course this happened

I am so sick of this crap. We are literally the only developed country where this happens, we see what every other one of those nations do so they don't have this problem, and proceed to ignore them.