A week after she turned 4, Khalise Weatherspoon was shot in the stomach while playing outside her Southwest Side home Monday, according to her grandfather.
Khalise and a 31-year-old man were shot just before 5 p.m. near 71st and Rockwell in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, Chicago Police said.
Khalise and the man were initially taken to Holy Cross Hospital. The child was transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital, Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford said. The man was shot in the buttocks. His condition was not known.
Khalise’s grandfather, Richard Spires, arrived at Mount Sinai Hospital about 6:30 p.m., distraught. He had gotten a call from family members that his granddaughter had been shot and he rushed there from his home in Berwyn.
“I got a phone call from my son,” said Spires, 49. “We just celebrated her birthday last week. She was just outside playing with some of my other grandkids, in front of their house, for God’s sake.”
Spires said the child was outside with her mother, Kharish Porter, when she was shot. He said his daughter told him that two men suddenly ran out of the alley and began shooting, and police confirmed that. http://www.suntimes.com/21610247-761/4-year-old-girl-shot-while-playing-outside-southwest-side-home.html
This shooting happened in Obama's and Jesse Jackson neck of the woods, so they ought to be speaking and condemning this shooting. Jackson ought to be leading a rally tomorrow to denounce this shooting and the shooters.
Anyone taking bets that this will happen?
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