Chicago girl who was selling candy is slain after being hit by stray bullet
CHICAGO (MCT) — Heaven Sutton’s 7-year-old body crumpled to the ground on the eve of the summer’s hottest day.
She was selling candy and snow cones on a West Side sidewalk when gunfire broke out and a stray bullet struck her in the back. Just like that, her name joined the swelling list of this year’s slaying victims in Chicago and her image — wide eyed and smiling — became the face of a street violence outbreak city officials are struggling to contain.
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