Girl 13 Who Wrote Essay on Gun Violence Is Killed by Stray Bullet

(The New York Times) When she was in sixth grade Sandra Parks wrote an award-winning essay about gun violence and crime in her hometown Milwaukee. This week two years after she described how we are in a state of chaos" she was fatally shot when someone outside fired a gun at her home and a stray bullet went into her bedroom. The shooting happened Monday as Sandra 13 was watching television at the time her sister Tatiana Ingram told the television station WISN. My sister took it like a soldier: She just walked in the room and said Mama Im shot" Ms. Ingram said. She was only hit one time in her chest. The bullet wasnt even for her."