Hadiya Pendleton has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Pendleton’s 2013 killing in Chicago drew the attention of then-President
Barack Obama.
As reported by NBC News, Hadiya had just taken her final exams at the King College Prep High School, and was walking home from when she and another classmate took cover from the rain at a nearby park. That’s where prosecutors said,
Micheail Ward, got out of a car driven by
Kenneth Williams and opened fire at who he thought were rival gang members.
Hadiya Pendleton’s parents, Cleopatra Cowley (center) & Nathaniel Pendleton Sr. (left), walk with supporters into the Leighton Criminal Courthouse, where a judge will sentence the man who drove the 15yo girl’s killer away from the park where she was shot more than 8 years ago. pic.twitter.com/RND2Qr2UWL