Teen performer at inaugural events fatally shot

 
By DON BABWIN, Associated Press | Modified: January 31, 2013 at 12:44 am | Published: January 31, 2013   

CHICAGO — A 15-year-old girl who had performed in President Barack Obama's inauguration festivities is the latest face on the ever-increasing homicide toll in the president's hometown, killed in a Chicago park by a gunman who apparently was not even aiming at her.

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Chicago police said Hadiya Pendleton was in a park about a mile from Obama's home in a South Side neighborhood Tuesday afternoon when a man opened fire on the group. Hadiya was shot in the back...
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