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13 year old boy shot 22 times while riding bike

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http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Gun-Shots-Kill-Boy-In-West-Pullman-99544129.html

How we need a children's advocate like Michael Jackson :cry:


Teen Shot 22 Times: Police
Robert Freeman Jr. was about to enter the eighth grade at Oglesby Elementary School
By ADRIANA CORREA and LAUREN JIGGETTS
Updated 7:53 PM CDT, Thu, Jul 29, 2010
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Theresa Lumpkin said she had been recently thinking of sending her son away to a safer neighborhood, fearful of the violence that's pervading her area.
Now, like so many other mothers who've experienced the pain of losing a child to gun violence, she'll bury her son.
Robert Freeman Jr., just 13 years old, was shot as many as 22 times Wednesday night in Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood, police said.  He was standing next to a car near 115th Street and South Perry Avenue at around 8:15 p.m. when a masked gunman jumped out of an overgrown vacant lot and opened fire into a crowd of people.
Freeman was the only one hit, and witnesses said the gunman pumped bullet after bullet into the young boy's body.

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"I miss my baby, I'm on my way to morgue right now," Lumpkin sobbed. "I've cried since 9:30 last night and I haven't had any sleep. I will not be eating."
"I don't want to bury my baby. My baby is 13 years old. I don't want to do it, but it's something I've got to do."
The Cook County Medical Examiner's office on Thursday confirmed that Freeman was shot more than 20 times.
Freeman's family and neighbors said they believe the shooting was a case of mistaken identity.  Freeman had a similar haircut, complexion and height as another boy in the neighborhood who they think was the target, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The teen was expected to begin eighth grade at Oglesby Elementary School this fall.  He had been living in the neighborhood for three months and was mowing lawns to make money.
Neighbors said the neighborhood has seen an increase in home foreclosures and violence recently, and they said they've complained for months about the overgrown, vacant lot from where the gunman emerged.
"This is a harbor for the boys to get away," explained Darlecia Watts.  "They all need to come and cut this because this is taller than me."
Police have no suspects, but said they've spent the morning interviewing people from the neighborhood.
Community activist Andrew Holmes passed out around 400 fliers this morning seeking answers.
"We don't want to sit and wait until this incident happens again," Holmes said. "We are trying to be proactive and get more into finding what makes these young men tick and pick up a gun, terrorize and take another life."


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Mj5StarChick

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July 31, 2010, 03:27:41 PM Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 06:00:00 PM by Guest

This is very sad for me AGAIN because he was related to my friend Lazarius and i met him once or twice :cry:  :cry:  :cry:
I mean i went through it already with my friend Vincinity but now again it's just terrible :cry:  It's just getting worse and worse around here it's just like it's getting impossible to solve this problem or to make it better :(
I mean i walk around this all day everyday which is what makes me not wanna go outside anymore :( Good thing is i have to stay in the house this last week unless i go out of town to Gary with my uncle.
It's tragic but all we can do is pray that it gets better. This hood is not a joke or anything to play with now which is y I'm stayin my you kno what in the house :?

Sun comes up on this new morning
Shifting shadows, a songbird sings
And if you feel alone, I'll be your shoulder
With a tender touch, you know me so well
Somebody once said, it's the soul that matters
Baby, who can really tell when two hearts belong so well


paula-c

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July 31, 2010, 05:55:40 PM Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 06:00:00 PM by Guest

These horrible things happen all over the world .. and what is the message we received from the media?, violence, sex, alcohol and drugs.
We are living in a society without values violence, assaults, death, famine and uncertainty; that is our bread every day, always the same, we are going from bad to worse "-"

hesouttamylifeTopic starter

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July 31, 2010, 06:54:37 PM Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 06:00:00 PM by Guest
Quote from: "Mj5StarChick"

This is very sad for me AGAIN because he was related to my friend Lazarius and i met him once or twice :cry:  :cry:  :cry:
I mean i went through it already with my friend Vincinity but now again it's just terrible :cry:  It's just getting worse and worse around here it's just like it's getting impossible to solve this problem or to make it better :(
I mean i walk around this all day everyday which is what makes me not wanna go outside anymore :( Good thing is i have to stay in the house this last week unless i go out of town to Gary with my uncle.
It's tragic but all we can do is pray that it gets better. This hood is not a joke or anything to play with now which is y I'm stayin my you kno what in the house :?

I am so sorry for your friend.  I am so sorry for the state of the world.  It should not be fear in trying to live from one day to the next without the looming threat of being murdered or brutalized in the home, in your neighborhoods, in school, everywhere .  But such is the way of the world.  This is not the Eden that God promised us.

I will pray for you and for that family, that mother who is obviously torn to shreds, and all the children of the world.  Children were not suppose to live in fear.  Something is terribly wrong in society.  We are killing all of our tomorrows, today.  Children are the keepers of the dream.  Without them, we face a certain nightmare.  We have to pray for protection.  And after we're done praying, take back what is rightfully ours.

It's time for change.

"Don't stop this child, He's the father of man
Don't cross his way, He's part of the plan
I am that child, but so are you
You've just forgotten, Just lost the clue."

MJ "Magical Child"
Still Rocking my World...
   and leaving me Speechless!

"True goodbyes are the ones never said

katy (MJFAN7)

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July 31, 2010, 06:56:56 PM Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 06:00:00 PM by Guest

This story made me cry, :cry:

How any human could end the life of another human, let alone a CHILD, I will never understand. God Bless him, and his family. I will keep them in my prayers.



أملي هو فيكم.
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