He can get visits from his family. My family has to visit a grave. Nathaniel Pendleton Jr. Ward and Williams were arrested in February Ward confessed to police during a recorded interrogation that was shown to jurors, saying he was trying to shoot rival gang members.
He later recanted that statement. According to Holmes, previous testimony indicated Williams had recognized some people in the park on the day of the shooting, and switched places with Ward to allow Ward to shoot, out of a concern that he could be recognized. Sign up for our morning newsletter to get all of our stories delivered to your mailbox each weekday. View the discussion thread. Skip to main content. Teaches us how much a mindless murder tears at the fabric of a community, of a city.
Moore experienced one of those incidents as a high school student on Jan. She was mourned and was not forgotten. Now details of her life and death are being retold in court as the alleged shooter and getaway driver stand trial for murder. Hadiya died on an unseasonably warm and rainy winter afternoon. The friends were gathered under a metal canopy when gunfire erupted. The classmates started running, Moore and Klyn Jones among them.
Jordan Dillon, another classmate, slowed his pace as Hadiya faltered. Two classmates tried to comfort Hadiya as she fell. Another student said he could positively identify the gunman. No hourlong TV drama, no unique and ambiguous plot twist. Police said Pendleton was an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of a gang feud on the South Side — yet another shooting that exposed an underlying, daily trauma that still afflicts the city's residents.
Seven years after her death, the teen is now the subject of the latest public service announcement from Team ROC , the philanthropic arm of Jay-Z's entertainment company, and the NFL. The two-minute video released Wednesday features information about Hadiya's Promise , a Chicago nonprofit started by Pendleton's parents that seeks to end gun violence through unity and invest in disaffected youth.
We lost all her children, her children's children. We lost generations. In the video, Cowley-Pendleton is surrounded by pictures of her daughter, whose name means "gift from God" in Arabic, and says young people need to be nurtured.
In , the convicted shooter, Micheail Ward of Chicago, was sentenced to 84 years in prison for murder and aggravated battery.
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