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By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News
A 15-year-old Chicago girl gunned down a week after she performed during President Obamas inaugural festivities was remembered Wednesday as a walking angel the last person her family could imagine dying by a bullet.
Hadiya Pendleton was an honor student, a marching-band majorette, and a doting big sister who thought about becoming a journalist or a pharmacist or even getting into politics after she witnessed history in Washington last week.
The biggest trouble the insatiable reader ever gave her parents: running up their credit card buying books on Amazon.
I couldnt ask for a better child, her mother, Cleo Cowley, said through tears at her Chicago home. She didnt give me any hard time at all. She had a heart of gold.
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A sophomore at Chicagos selective King College Prep High School, Pendleton was walking with fellow members of the volleyball team in a park Tuesday afternoon when the skies opened. They ducked under a canopy to get out of the rain, joining other teenagers.
At that moment, Chicago police say, a gunman came running down an alley behind the park, opened fire and then darted into a waiting vehicle and took off. No arrests have been made.
Courtesy the Pendleton family
Hadiya Pendleton during her trip to Washington.
Pendleton was struck in the upper back, and a 16-year-old schoolmate was hit in the leg. They ran about a block before she collapsed on the street, police said. She died at the hospital.
When it happened, her mother was at work at the TransUnion credit company, in a meeting. Her cellphone rang and she saw it was one of her daughters friends and quickly answered.
She was screaming on the phone that Hadiyas been shot, shes been shot, and I just didnt understand, said Cowley. I had to get someone to help me understand that my baby has been shot.
The murder about a mile from Obamas Chicago home quickly caught the attention of Washington during a day of debate over gun violence.
The White House called it a terrible tragedy, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel called the shooter a gangbanger and a punk who had stolen the dreams of a girl with a bright future.
Teen slain after performing at inaugural: 'Happiest day of her life and then she's gone' - U.S. News
A 15-year-old Chicago girl gunned down a week after she performed during President Obamas inaugural festivities was remembered Wednesday as a walking angel the last person her family could imagine dying by a bullet.
Hadiya Pendleton was an honor student, a marching-band majorette, and a doting big sister who thought about becoming a journalist or a pharmacist or even getting into politics after she witnessed history in Washington last week.
The biggest trouble the insatiable reader ever gave her parents: running up their credit card buying books on Amazon.
I couldnt ask for a better child, her mother, Cleo Cowley, said through tears at her Chicago home. She didnt give me any hard time at all. She had a heart of gold.
Advertise | AdChoices
A sophomore at Chicagos selective King College Prep High School, Pendleton was walking with fellow members of the volleyball team in a park Tuesday afternoon when the skies opened. They ducked under a canopy to get out of the rain, joining other teenagers.
At that moment, Chicago police say, a gunman came running down an alley behind the park, opened fire and then darted into a waiting vehicle and took off. No arrests have been made.
Courtesy the Pendleton family
Hadiya Pendleton during her trip to Washington.
Pendleton was struck in the upper back, and a 16-year-old schoolmate was hit in the leg. They ran about a block before she collapsed on the street, police said. She died at the hospital.
When it happened, her mother was at work at the TransUnion credit company, in a meeting. Her cellphone rang and she saw it was one of her daughters friends and quickly answered.
She was screaming on the phone that Hadiyas been shot, shes been shot, and I just didnt understand, said Cowley. I had to get someone to help me understand that my baby has been shot.
The murder about a mile from Obamas Chicago home quickly caught the attention of Washington during a day of debate over gun violence.
The White House called it a terrible tragedy, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel called the shooter a gangbanger and a punk who had stolen the dreams of a girl with a bright future.
Teen slain after performing at inaugural: 'Happiest day of her life and then she's gone' - U.S. News
