Keeping up with the crime in Chicago is exhausting. Keeping score of the number of shooting deaths is heartbreaking.
15-year-old Cornell Henderson is the latest victim of Chicago's rampant gun violence.
On October 17, 2010, around 8:30 p.m., the Chicago Vocational High School student was gunned down on the 2500 block of West Lithuanian Plaza Court, in Chicago's Marquette Park neighborhood.
Reportedly, Henderson was shot twice in the back, while he was playing with friends. He was rushed to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead.
Neighborhood residents say they heard non-stop sirens in the area, the night Henderson was murdered. And I can personally attest to the high volume of police calls coming out of Marquette Park, on any given day.
So now what? Now that another child has been murdered - what's next? Another candlelight vigil? Another makeshift shrine of teddy bears, cards, balloons, and flowers?
My heart goes out to Cornell Henderson's mother, Desiree Henderson; and to everyone who loved this young man.
Monday, October 18, 2010
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i love you lil bro that gone always be forever..i really miss you like crazy...only if you could come back into our life...which you still is..i miss you can't tell you how much i love you..i can only show you...i will be there sooner then you think bro..i love you
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