2 Chicago Moms Fought For Years To End Gun Violence. They Were Shot Dead Last Week. [View all]

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2 Chicago Moms Fought For Years To End Gun Violence. They Were Shot Dead Last Week.

Chantell Grant and Andrea Stoudemire were killed in a drive-by shooting as they stood watch “at their usual spot” to protect their neighborhood.

By Dominique Mosbergen

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chicago-moms-gun-violence-chantell-grant-andrea-stoudemire_n_5d415af6e4b0d24cde082b8a?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaHVmZnBvc3QuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIXL3o1T6lzX363eyW01Z3qyPxl_UDZ-I_yq7ukOTRNHbHSAyLho9v0_VcjOqBShhCe6DDuTdzOQnZkBtyBTA7o5CUMvRtD9T2jv-DG76XZNpeSmcTjg6llnjoCvsNX2pp0x5KwU2T6S2fhl_tZvtiNTHwWsTtQ5EJawwJB3Hle2

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Chantell Grant, 26, and Andrea Stoudemire, 36, volunteers at the nonprofit Mothers Against Senseless Killings, or MASK, were gunned down Friday on a corner near the south Chicago neighborhood of Auburn Gresham as they promoted efforts to end gun violence. The killer, riding in an SUV, escaped.

Members of the anti-violence group have been occupying the corner where Grant and Stoudemire were shot since its founding in 2015. Parents bring their children to the spot and have cookouts, learn to dance and play games.

“For mothers to be killed in a place where mothers go to seek safety and sisterhood, I take that as a personal threat,” MASK founder Tamar Manasseh said at a press conference over the weekend. “Because when you come for one of us, you better believe they came for all of us.”

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