“I’m maintaining doing the very best I can,” she said. “I’m trying to be hopeful constantly, because this is a crisis that’s not going away.”
Reyes was a college baseball player in South Carolina with dreams of playing in the major leagues. Then his life was cut short.
“He was a beautiful boy as he was on earth, and I know he is in heaven,” she said.
According to the Chicago Police Department, 762 people have been killed in city violence so far this year. Last year 491 people died from violence. The deadliest year was in 2016 when the city had 771 murders.