southsuburbs
What I Live By...
This is sad...not that all the other stories about killings aren't, but it just pisses me off. I'm mad at the gang violence but I"m mad at the fact that the mother opened a damn candy "store" under a tent in the front yard on a block/area known for violence. Then to have your kids out at 10:43pm on a hot night makes me smh. She thought the gangs wouldn't shoot b/c they know them!? :smh:
With all that said...of course it's not her fault. But daymn!!
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...isney-world-vacation-report-article-1.1104033
Heaven Sutton, a second grader on summer break, had begged her mother to move out of their West Side neighborhood after a series of recent shootings, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
"She had been telling me, ‘Mom, let's move, let's get out,'" Ashake Banks, 38, told the newspaper.
Banks was finishing up selling candy under a tent in her front yard around 10:40 p.m. when the shooting started.
Cops said two men fired into a crowd of people.
Heaven, who had just returned from a hair salon and was playing with some kids nearby, was running away when she was hit, Sutton said.
She was pronounced dead about a half hour later at Loyola University Medical Center.
A 19-year-old man who was shot in the ankle survived.
Banks said she suspected the shooters were gang members aiming for someone in the crowd.
Now, her little girl, who she described as a fashion “diva,†was dead, she told the Sun-Times.
"She'd been looking forward to [our vacation], and they took my baby's life," she said.
The grieving mom offered a $3,000 reward to find her daughter’s killer.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...-austin-neighborhood-20120627,0,1359912.story
I opened up the candy store for the kids so they wouldn't have to be pulled back and forth on the block because there's been so much shooting," Banks said this morning. "I figured they (gang members) know us, they wouldn't come to the neighborhood and start shooting, but they really didn't even care.
She said the block was filled with children playing when two men came out out a gangway and one of them started shooting at a group of people standing on the sidewalk near the candy stand. "We're just sitting out here, normal, she's sitting next to me and I just heard shooting," Banks told WGN-TV.
Banks said her daughter was frightened by all the violence around her home and had pleaded with her to move out. "She would say, 'Mom, let's move.' "
Longtime residents of the block say gang tensions have put residents on edge. Ron Ware, 61, said it was only a matter of time before a child or another innocent bystander was shot.
Parents only let their children outside for short periods of time, he said, and then only with close supervision, he said.
“I’ve seen a lot in my time, but it stuck in my head all night long – that baby holding her baby,†Ware said. “I couldn’t sleep.â€
Heaven’s aunt, Sharmaine Sykes, 28, said Heaven was a “girly girl†always eager to dress up in jewelry and high-heel shoes.
But recent violence in the neighborhood started to make the happy-go-lucky child afraid, she said, and she had asked her mother to move out.
With all that said...of course it's not her fault. But daymn!!
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...isney-world-vacation-report-article-1.1104033
Heaven Sutton, a second grader on summer break, had begged her mother to move out of their West Side neighborhood after a series of recent shootings, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
"She had been telling me, ‘Mom, let's move, let's get out,'" Ashake Banks, 38, told the newspaper.
Banks was finishing up selling candy under a tent in her front yard around 10:40 p.m. when the shooting started.
Cops said two men fired into a crowd of people.
Heaven, who had just returned from a hair salon and was playing with some kids nearby, was running away when she was hit, Sutton said.
She was pronounced dead about a half hour later at Loyola University Medical Center.
A 19-year-old man who was shot in the ankle survived.
Banks said she suspected the shooters were gang members aiming for someone in the crowd.
Now, her little girl, who she described as a fashion “diva,†was dead, she told the Sun-Times.
"She'd been looking forward to [our vacation], and they took my baby's life," she said.
The grieving mom offered a $3,000 reward to find her daughter’s killer.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...-austin-neighborhood-20120627,0,1359912.story
I opened up the candy store for the kids so they wouldn't have to be pulled back and forth on the block because there's been so much shooting," Banks said this morning. "I figured they (gang members) know us, they wouldn't come to the neighborhood and start shooting, but they really didn't even care.
She said the block was filled with children playing when two men came out out a gangway and one of them started shooting at a group of people standing on the sidewalk near the candy stand. "We're just sitting out here, normal, she's sitting next to me and I just heard shooting," Banks told WGN-TV.
Banks said her daughter was frightened by all the violence around her home and had pleaded with her to move out. "She would say, 'Mom, let's move.' "
Longtime residents of the block say gang tensions have put residents on edge. Ron Ware, 61, said it was only a matter of time before a child or another innocent bystander was shot.
Parents only let their children outside for short periods of time, he said, and then only with close supervision, he said.
“I’ve seen a lot in my time, but it stuck in my head all night long – that baby holding her baby,†Ware said. “I couldn’t sleep.â€
Heaven’s aunt, Sharmaine Sykes, 28, said Heaven was a “girly girl†always eager to dress up in jewelry and high-heel shoes.
But recent violence in the neighborhood started to make the happy-go-lucky child afraid, she said, and she had asked her mother to move out.
