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A sisters’ trip to Chicago ended in tragedy as their family from Minnesota, Iowa and the south suburbs converged this week to manage the sisters’ death arrangements and medical care.
Keyonce and KeiLaysia Gladney, from Minnesota, were listening to music, watching their friends play basketball and thinking about getting something to eat on the unseasonably warm Sunday afternoon in Pottawatomie Park when someone in a ski mask approached and started shooting.
Keyonce, 19, was shot in the chest and died. KeiLaysia, 22, was shot in the foot. Chicago police said two young men, ages 19 and 20, were also shot and taken to St. Francis Hospital in good condition.
“It was such a nice day,” recalled KeiLaysia on Monday night. “We were all just hanging out. The sun was out.”
Then gunshots rang out.
Read the full story from the Tribune’s Caroline Kubzansky.
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