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Girl who performed at Obama's inauguration shot dead in Chicago

Washington, Jan 31: Hadiya Pendleton, a teenager who performed at President Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony last week, was gunned down in Chicago, a media report said.Pendleton, 15, was shot dead while hanging out with friends

India TV News Desk India TV News Desk Updated on: January 31, 2013 15:20 IST


She was shot in the back but managed to run about a block before she collapsed. She died at a hospital.



A 16-year-old boy was wounded in the attack.

Pendleton, who did not have a criminal record, was probably not the intended target.

"Never in a million years did I think I would get a call that my own baby had been gunned down," Pendleton's mother, Cleo Cowley, was quoted as saying.

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