In 2013, 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed while hanging out with her volleyball team in a Chicago park. A gang member had mistook her as a rival. As an active community member who had also participated in events for Barack Obama’s second inauguration, Hadiya quickly became a symbol of the bitter cost of gun violence.
In this installment of We Are Witnesses: Chicago, Hadiya’s parents Cleopatra and Nate talk about what it’s like to survive a tragedy and the difficult ties between forgiveness and retribution. “Who’s gonna tell me how to feel when I’m visiting a cemetery,” Cleopatra told The Marshall Project. “Until you walk a day in my shoes, you can’t tell me anything.”
The parents founded Hadiya’s Promise, an organization that advocates for solutions to gun violence.
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