Thirteen-year-old
Sandra Parks who wrote an essay about gun violence and further narrated how she
tried to escape from the “black on black crime” chaos that depressed her, has
been killed by a stray bullet.
Sandra wrote
about gun violence in her Milwaukee neighborhood two years ago, titled her
essay “Our Truth” — a sobering reminder that, as she said, people’s poor
choices and hatred have led to so much violence. .
“We are in a
state of chaos. In a city in which I live, I hear and see examples of chaos
almost everyday. Little children are victims of senseless gun violence.”
She wrote.
However days
before the 2018 Thanksgiving Day, Sandra was in her bedroom when a bullet fired
from a gun outside, aimed at no one in particular, pierced a hole through her
home and landed in her chest. “Momma, I’m shot,” she told her mother. She died
on Monday night.
The sixth-grader took third
place in the city competition, with an essay commemorating the life of Martin
Luther King.Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett described violence in the city as
senseless.
“Sandra Parks, a 13-year-old,
went into her bedroom. She never came out alive,” Mayor Barrett told a media
conference.
“Tragically, her death was
caused by someone who just decided they were going shoot bullets into her house
and she’s dead.”
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