Homicide Watch Chicago

Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Saturday, February 16, 2013 Author/Byline: Stefano Esposito ; Staff Under different circumstances, President Obama’s speech at Hyde Park Academy High School on Friday might have simply been a proud occasion for Mike Lopez. After all, the South Side man’s 15-year-old stepdaughter was among the students there to hear the president talk … Read more →

Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Author/Byline: RUMMANA HUSSAIN AND MITCH DUDEK ; Staff Reporters The gunman who allegedly killed Hadiya Pendleton in a South Side park chalked her death up to the collateral damage of an ongoing three-year gang war, telling police the 15-year-old girl had “nothing to do with it. She … Read more →

Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Thursday, March 28, 2013 Author/Byline: RUMMANA HUSSAIN ; Criminal Courts Hadiya Pendleton ’s alleged killers pleaded not guilty to several dozen counts of murder and myriad other charges Thursday in the high-profile slaying of the 15-year-old honors student. Nathaniel Pendleton , the girl’s father, said he felt “some bit of anger” … Read more →

Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Author/Byline: MITCH DUDEK ; Staff Reporter/mdudek@suntimes.com President Barack Obama and the first lady are praying for the family of Hadiya Pendleton , the 15-year-old girl who attended the president’s inauguration and was fatally shot Tuesday less than a mile from his Kenwood home. White House Press Secretary … Read more →

Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Author/Byline: MARY MITCHELL ; marym@suntimes.com Hadiya Pendleton was not left alone. When an unidentified gunman fired into a crowd of King College Prep students who had gathered in a neighborhood park Tuesday, about a dozen students ran for their lives. One bullet caught 15-year-old Hadiya in the … Read more →

Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Author/Byline: BY MITCH DUDEK ; Staff Reporter ; A week after attending presidential inauguration festivities in the nation’s capital and with dreams of a summer trip to Paris swirling in her 15-year-old imagination, Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon in the South Side’s Kenwood neighborhood. … Read more →

Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Author/Byline: FRAN SPIELMAN ; City Hall Reporter ; An emotional Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday denounced the “punk” who cut down a bubbly 15-year-old girl who had just taken exams after returning from President Barack Obama’s second inaugural in Washington D.C. Hadiya Pendleton , a student at … Read more →

Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Author/Byline: MITCH DUDEK ; Staff Reporter ; mdudek@suntimes.com A week after attending presidential inauguration festivities in the nation’s capital and with dreams of a summer trip to Paris swirling in her 15-year-old imagination, Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon in the South Side’s Kenwood neighborhood. … Read more →

Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Friday, February 1, 2013 Author/Byline: JON SEIDEL AND FRAN SPIELMAN ; Staff Reporters The King College Prep student shot to death this week less than a mile from President Barack Obama’s Kenwood home appeared in an online video four years ago to warn kids about the dangers of gangs. It opens … Read more →