7 year old girl shot dead while selling some lemonade

[idarkphoenixi]

Hows that for depressing news? Guess I wont be sleeping easy tonight.

It seems a young girl was getting ready for a family trip to Disney World, even got her hair done. She was sitting outside of her Chicago home selling self-made lemonade and other sweet treats. That is until a seemingly random shootout happened in the area. Sad to say she was hit by a stray bullet and was killed almost immediately.

http://www.inquisitr.com/266763/chicago-7-year-old-girl-shot-dead-while-selling-lemonade/?obref=obinsite

This happened over a week ago according to the article but I havn't found any threads discussing this. Apologies if it's already been mentioned

 

[Daystar Clarion]

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It sucks, but this isn't news, not really, this shit happens everyday.

My sympathies are with the girl's family, regardless.

 

[Solo-Wing]

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That is seriously one of the most Morbid things I have seen in a LOOOOOOONG time. I seriously hope the fucker who did it is brought down.

What also Bothers me is that they have had 250 Homicides so far this year.

Up here in Calgary we have only had like 5 (Checks) Wait no only 4! And the first did not happen till like march...

 

[idarkphoenixi]

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Tingling!

It sucks, but this isn't news, not really, this shit happens everyday.

My sympathies are with the girl's family, regardless.

I know it's not real news but I still thought it was worth mentioning. Sure, people get shot every day but not like that.

 

[Aerosteam]

That uh... Um... Wow.

I don't know what to say to this. Not that I'm surprised or anything. People die everyday, right?

 

[Thaluikhain]

Stray bullet...sorta makes this less grim, IMHO. I mean, she's not any less dead, but someone intentionally killing a 7 year old is hard to fathom, someone trying to kill someone else and someone getting accidently killed who happened to be 7 is tragic, but "part of the plan" or whatever.

 

[Launcelot111]

This is sad, but far from unprecedented in Chicago. Crime-wise, the south side is an absolute mess. A couple years ago, a few kids came to school and beat another kid to death with some 2x4s, right in front of the school. Not a good place to grow up

 

[Matthew Kjonaas]

Why are people so violent to strangers? There is no reason to kill anyone that young... unless you go back in time to kill Hitler.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Why are people so violent to strangers? There is no reason to kill anyone that young... unless you go back in time to kill Hitler.

I don't think she was actively killed.

She was just collateral damage, if that's what you want to call it.

 

[TehCookie]

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That is seriously one of the most Morbid things I have seen in a LOOOOOOONG time. I seriously hope the fucker who did it is brought down.

What also Bothers me is that they have had 250 Homicides so far this year.

Up here in Calgary we have only had like 5 (Checks) Wait no only 4! And the first did not happen till like march...

Seriously? Where I live it's bigger news when no one dies.

Spoiler: Though the newspaper is a few months old now.

 

[Powereaver]

Another sad story from the US involving guns... when will they learn? probably never

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Another sad story from the US involving guns... when will they learn? probably never

This was a couple of gangsters having a shoot out, and a little girl getting hit accidentally. I can absolutely guarantee you that none of the people in that shoot out had legally bought and licensed guns, and I can also guarantee you that no gun control laws would have prevented them from illegally buying them.

 

[Biodeamon]

As Cave Jhonson said:
"I don't want your damn lemons! the hell am i supposed to do with these!?"

 

[Instant K4rma]

And to think I just got done watching Bowling for Columbine.

This is the kind of shit Michael was talking about the whole film. I gotta say, he really hit the nail on the head as far as I'm concerned.

 

[scorptatious]

That's a darned shame. I wish her family the best.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Gun Control Thread Imminency Senses...

Tingling!

It sucks, but this isn't news, not really, this shit happens everyday.

My sympathies are with the girl's family, regardless.

Very true... Still post worthy for the WTF? factor. I mean I hear about kids dying all the time, but how many times do you hear about one dying doing something as innocent as selling lemonade? Fucked up isn't even the god damn word for it.... It's beyond that.

Shit like this makes me wishful there is some sort of after life, cause that little girl just got fucked over.

As Cave Jhonson said:
"I don't want your damn lemons! the hell am i supposed to do with these!?"

That's totally fucked up but it DID make me laugh. Bravo, sir.