A 15-year-old girl who performed at President Barack Obama's inauguration last week was shot dead in Chicago by a gunman who opened fire on a group of kids hanging out in a park, police said today.
"It is believed that the offender mistook the group for gang members and fired at them," Chicago police office Laura Kubiak said.
Hadiya Pendleton – described by a relative as a "walking angel" – was sheltering from the rain under a canopy with about 10 or 12 other teenagers yesterday when the gunman leaped over a fence, opened fire and then jumped into a getaway car at 2:30 pm.
Her friends scrambled in fear and did not stay to help Pendleton or the two boys were were also injured, Kubiak said.
"As usual, the bad guy aims, but he never hits the other bad guy," her godfather, Chicago police officer Damon Stewart, lamented to the Chicago Sun-Times.
"I changed her diapers, I played with her growing up. My heart is broken."
The park where Pendleton was shot is about a mile away from Obama's South Side home
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