Sandra Parks, a then sixth grader, wrote an award-winning essay on the topic of gun violence and crime in her hometown Milwaukee. This week almost two years after she described in her essay, how “we are in a state of chaos,” she was fatally shot. An unknown person outside fired a gun at her home, and a stray bullet was directed into her bedroom. The shooting happened on Monday as Parks, 13, was watching television. Park's essay which placed third in her school district 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Contest called for more empathy and less negativity as well as emphasizing the importance of becoming educated to make the world a better place.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/us/sandra-parks-Milwaukee-gunfire.html
Unspeakable violence has occurred, and I cannot imagine how a family could ever feel losing a young daughter like that. I hope the family and friends can recover in the future and other friends helping them get through this tragedy and seeing out her message. This article was published November 21, 2018, and shows how murder happens all the time anywhere accidental or purposeful. This article was made to inform readers who want to stay up to date with current events and be aware of tragedies occurring all over the world.
this was really well written and i think this is awful. for her to speak against gun violence then being shot breaks my heart. this shows that something needs to done.-gracie zytynski
ReplyDeleteThis is terrible how ironic it is. Someone who wanted to change the ways our society works, died from the exact thing he was complaining about.
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