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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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"I moved to Virginia to try to get away from this violence,"

That won't be part of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce ad campaign.

1 posted on 11/09/2015 6:00:20 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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J-Quantae.... Poor kid never had a chance.

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2 posted on 11/09/2015 6:01:28 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Now Rahm and Barack can say for the zillionth time in 7 years, that stricter gun control laws are needed. Yeah, that’s the ticket.


3 posted on 11/09/2015 6:02:19 AM PST by simpson96
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To: Lurker

Yup. I guess J-Quantae’s life didn’t matter.


4 posted on 11/09/2015 6:03:04 AM PST by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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5 posted on 11/09/2015 6:06:00 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Cannot Franika Marshall read? The newspapers and TV “news” tells us another young black lives don’t matter story daily.

Wait. Wait.
She is a product of American public education.
American education that seems more and more to be teaching pubic education.


6 posted on 11/09/2015 6:10:03 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Check out the trailer of CHI-RAQ.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4594834/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Complete celebration of the thug culture. They voted for Obama = they deserve whatever hell they wanted.


7 posted on 11/09/2015 6:10:36 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: ConservativeStatement

Yup. I guess J-Quantae’s life didn’t matter.

Seems strange when it’s stated in an honest manner.


8 posted on 11/09/2015 6:11:11 AM PST by heshtesh (I believe in Sarah Palin, the rest not so much.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Mom doomed the kid from birth with a name like that.


9 posted on 11/09/2015 6:11:59 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
And in other news from Chi-rak:

Monday, November 09, 2015

Seriously?

Just when you think the 9-year-old story couldn't get any weirder, we get this in our e-mail...about fifteen times:

So, is it or isn't it? It's a pretty good likeness of picture the media has been running with. And after momma posted herself with a gun and bought a new car with the GoFundMe money, we wouldn't be surprised in the least.

And even if it isn't young Mister Lee, it's some kid, about 4 years old, on his way to a lifetime of lord knows what.

Do you remember Eric Holder's non-existent conversation on race? The conversation that pretty much went, "White people are racist, and if you try to refute it, we'll call you racist, and by the way, you're all cowards for not talking about race, you racists." It looks like there might be a crack in the media wall by a black columnist of all people:

http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/

10 posted on 11/09/2015 6:12:29 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: ConservativeStatement

Keep voting in those race-baiting democrat community organizers to run the city. Its worked out so well so far.
Those liberal policies have made Chicago a prosperous, enlightened melting pot of diversity. And the strict gun control has made the city an extremely safe place raise a family.

Man, that was hard to type with a straight face.


11 posted on 11/09/2015 6:12:48 AM PST by envisio (I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Franika Marshall?

Any possible spiritual relationship with Frank Marshall Davis?


12 posted on 11/09/2015 6:14:11 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Good God... Englewood... could she have picked a worse place to come back to...


13 posted on 11/09/2015 6:14:35 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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Jut wondering... was there a ‘baby daddy’ anywhere to be found?

Did she have to take off work to go to the funeral?


14 posted on 11/09/2015 6:15:00 AM PST by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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...to think how we used to laugh at Johnny Cash singing “A Boy Named Sue.”


15 posted on 11/09/2015 6:15:08 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: KeyLargo

Any kid, posing in a picture like that... crooked hat, gag signs... I give him a life expectancy of maybe 18. Dead or prison by 18. And whoever took the picture probably thought it was cute.
On the bright side, by 18 he would already have 3 kids with 3 babymamas to carry on his legacy.


16 posted on 11/09/2015 6:16:37 AM PST by envisio (I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
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To: Mr. K

No mention if the father of the teen victim is the same dad as the “baby bump” twins mentioned in the article. Liberal society frowns upon traditional relationships, let’s remember.


17 posted on 11/09/2015 6:19:41 AM PST by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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Any possible spiritual relationship with Frank Marshall Davis?

Ah, you saw that too, didja?

19 posted on 11/09/2015 6:24:50 AM PST by Old Sarge
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