Second Chicago girl falls victim to gun epidemic hours after Michelle Obama shed tears for slain 15-year-old

April 12, 2013

Hours after First Lady Michelle Obama tearfully mourned the death of a 15-year-old girl who was shot in her Chicago hometown a second girl of the same age and in the same city has been critically wounded by gunfire.

The unidentified girl was shot near her stomach around 1pm on the South Side of the city's Grand Crossing neighborhood, roughly four miles south of where Hadiya Pendleton was killed on January 29.

Just about 20 minutes later a 27-year-old man was shot in the leg in the same neighborhood, the Chicago Tribune reports.

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