An
11-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet is among the four dead and
dozens of other people wounded by yet another brutal weekend of gun
violence in Chicago.
Shamiya
Adams was making s'mores inside a South Side home for a sleepover
Friday night when a bullet went into the house and struck her in the
head. Three other people were shot dead and a further 40 were injured,
police said.
As
usual, the bulk of the violence occurred on the South and West Sides – a
refrain that is now playing out in the Windy City on an almost nightly
basis.
Senseless: Shamiya Adams, 11, was killed by a
stray bullet in front of her friends while making s'mores during a
sleepover inside the home of her best friend
Adams death shocked a city so used to witnessing dozens of shootings across entire weekends that a website named HeyJacka** is used to track, among other things, how many people are shot in the buttocks each year.
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