As Chicago endures rise in number of young shooting victims, three are killed and nine injured in less than two weeks

A bullet was still lodged in De’ajah Blizzard’s head Wednesday afternoon, but even so, her mother felt things were looking up for the girl. “They asked her to open her eyes and move her hands and she did,” Brenda Ibarra Boyd said of her daughter De’ajah, 11. “So much hope.” Boyd pulled her pink fleece tighter around her as she sat on a bench outside of Comer Children’s Hospital, where she had ...

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