'Is Nee-Nee dead? Is she gone?"-Valerie Williams, Nequiel Williams' sister
"She couldn't wait to start the 4th grade, she had her book bag ready, she had her clothes ready, her grandmother just went shopping for her. It seems like I was in heaven that morning, but then I went to hell."-Linda Williams,Nequiel Williams mother
"It's heartbreaking. It's absolutely crazy, it's crazy that as a society that we allow this to happen to our kids. It makes me absolutely furious that we don't value our children."-Arne Duncan, CPS Superintendent
UPDATE!
Chicago residents Pena, Raymond Jones, 18, and Joey Chico, 23 as well as Sauk Village resident Antoine Lacy, 25, are each charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder, Chicago police spokesman John Mirabelli said Nequiel Williams had stopped to tie the shoes of her younger sister, who is blind, when Luis Pena, 20, of Chicago, opened fire on Nequiel and the others from a gangway she was hit by a bullet on her left side. The children were not the intended targets, he said, adding that the men were members of the Latin Dragons gang. The men are scheduled to appear in Bond Court on Thursday.
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