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Mom of slain boy, 14, had just returned to Chicago: 'I wish I never came back'
Chicago Tribune ^ | November 9, 2015 | Rosemary Regina Sobol

Posted on 11/09/2015 6:00:20 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

Franika Marshall, expecting twin girls in March, lost her 14-year-old son over the weekend just weeks after returning to a city she had left because of the gun violence.

"I'm numb," said Marshall, sitting on a dining room chair in her mother's home in the 5700 block of South Seeley Avenue on Sunday morning, hours after J-Quantae Riles was gunned down on a West Englewood sidewalk.

Surrounded by friends and family, she spoke with her eyes half-closed, tears streaming down her cheeks, her left hand never leaving her baby bump.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: chicago; shooting
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To: Lurker

And his mama cries....


21 posted on 11/09/2015 6:50:58 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: ConservativeStatement

I’m guessing her husband, the boy’s father, is pretty upset too but was still at work when this interview transpired.


22 posted on 11/09/2015 6:52:01 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Let me use RAT logic, here.

She moved away to Virginia to try to get away from this violence.( she must have known something was up regarding her son...(hit?))

She came back to Chicago (no reason given).

Her son gets murdered less than a few weeks back.

The mom caused her son to be murdered.


23 posted on 11/09/2015 7:02:25 AM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo Smart)
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To: stylin19a

Yes good questions. Was her son falling in with a bad crowd, which prompted her to move away in the first place? Then they move back, he reconnects with the gangs, and he pays the price? I bet there’s more to this story.


24 posted on 11/09/2015 8:08:09 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ßuddaßudd; kevslisababy
I care more about the dead cat I saw on the rode today than this woman or her dead son . . .

Proving that conservatives can be heartless too. What exactly did the woman do to be worth less than the dead cat? Is it that she is black or lives in Chicago or something else?

25 posted on 11/09/2015 8:14:09 AM PST by LovedSinner
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To: dfwgator

I saw what you did there!

What has changed since Elvis released that?

For that matter, what has changed since Peter Boyle’s bar rant in the movie “Joe”?


26 posted on 11/09/2015 8:15:43 AM PST by DickBrannigan (When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
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To: LovedSinner

Heartless, as well as illiterate.

“rode” ?


27 posted on 11/09/2015 8:24:04 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (FreeRepublic needs your financial support.)
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To: LovedSinner

. . something else,,,
lack of empathy.


28 posted on 11/09/2015 8:28:34 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: envisio

Yeah, Virginia thanks her for going back. I am sure.


29 posted on 11/09/2015 8:28:46 AM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: LovedSinner

Because, in my case, the compassion has been sucked out of me. I just don’t care.


30 posted on 11/09/2015 8:34:31 AM PST by kevslisababy
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To: LovedSinner

And why did you have to make it about her color????


31 posted on 11/09/2015 8:35:07 AM PST by kevslisababy
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To: kevslisababy

Seemed one of the only obvious attributes.


32 posted on 11/09/2015 8:37:05 AM PST by LovedSinner
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To: kevslisababy

Ok, so we are agreed that you are not compassionate and do not care about others.


33 posted on 11/09/2015 8:38:11 AM PST by LovedSinner
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To: LovedSinner

Do you feel better now?


34 posted on 11/09/2015 8:49:51 AM PST by kevslisababy
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To: kevslisababy

I would ask you the same question, because I am not one who attacked a dead boy or his mother. I forgot, what was their crime exactly?


35 posted on 11/09/2015 9:01:14 AM PST by LovedSinner
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To: Dilbert San Diego

She let him roam the streets on a Saturday night. ANd for those who ask what’s she supposed to do, keep him locked inside? Yes, but a father would probably be more effective.


36 posted on 11/09/2015 9:07:29 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: LovedSinner

Neither have I attacked a dead (or live) boy or his mother.

What are you talking about??


37 posted on 11/09/2015 9:38:39 AM PST by kevslisababy
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