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CHICAGO – Police say two gunmen on bicycles killed an 8-year-old girl and wounded her younger cousin as the children were skipping rope in a Chicago neighborhood.

Deputy Police Superintendent Ernest Brown says the shooting happened Tuesday evening in Roseland on Chicago’s South Side.

Brown says the two men rolled up on bicycles, fired, then fled.

There is no word Wednesday on charges in the shooting.

Relatives say the girl killed was 8-year-old Tanaja Stokes. The Cook County medical examiner’s office says she was shot in the head.

Relatives say 7-year-old Ariana Jones also was shot in the head, but police say her injuries don’t appear to be life-threatening.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    This is what happens when majority of the folk’s who’s moved to the neighborhood with the blessing of the Federal Government a/k/a Section-8! Families who harbor their criminal, thugged out, gang banging A** Punk A** Cowardley A** Husbands, Lovers, Son’s, Grand-Son’s and all other males of Negative Persuasions. The little punk’s walk in parades looking like complete F**en Idiots. The YOUNG LADIES, travel in bunches, with each other, a lot of them with kid’s in tow, baby’s in stollers and/or their belly’s walking & looking like stray female dog’s in heat! WHY is it surprising bullets are flying all over the place in areas who houses that mentality of indviduals WHO SO HAPPEN TO BE BLACK/AFRICAN AMERICAN/NI**’S? Decent black people KNOW it’s a small majority of black’s who is making ALL of us look like, “Hairless Animals.” The Crack Baby’s are now Great-Grand Parent’s & counting! This epidemic is worst than the Crack epidemic of the early 80′s! Those kid’s born addicted to crack are now walking this great earth, roaring, rampaging and reeking pure havoc, causing misery & destruction. People in household’s who harbor criminals of whatever persuasion, or lives next door, across the street, on the same block with those non belt wearing fool’s should NOT be surprised at these outcomes! Is it shocking a stray bullet hit a little girl in the head as she jumped road? Hell No is Not! We ALL know WHO’S doing the shooting but until the families stop haboring those clowns, the females quit reproducing little Thug’s and/or Video Vixons? Man we ain’t saw s**T yet! Keep on ducking and dodging great folk’s who are stuck in those areas! RIP Little Black Angel!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    There is no doubt the black man has lost his way. Indulging in gang activity, the world of drug use and sales, black on black crime, homosexuality/Transvestitism has totally emasculated the once mighty black man.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    To _A_ ? The once Mighty WHAT? WHO? I guess I was not born as of yet???

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blackbizman2008/ blackbizman2008

    Chicago, Chicago! Anyone who is still scared of snitching needs to realize this can happen to your children, your loved ones, at any time. Don’t wait for police. Become an army of one and help make a change in some young person’s life on the South Side. Sometimes, it seems that problems are larger than life, bigger than ourselves, so we can feel overwhelmed and a little intimidated. But it only takes one spark. Inspire a child to achieve more on one end of the spectrum, and on the other end (criminal system) inspire former inmates with concrete job leads. But no longer be afraid to speak up because silence is becoming a way of passive approval of such despicable acts.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/U_InquireMi/ U_InquireMi

    This Violence has got to stop man for real, I have peoples in Chicago and I’m fearful of them everyday. I hear more about children getting killed more than anything. Any loss of life is terrible but the children, come on. I’m tired and disturbed by the fact that we are taking each others lives like this. We better step in quick because we don’t want the government to take over. Big shouts to Michael Baisden and George Wilburn for the 1 million mentors campaign. Get these young brothers and sisters the love they need before it’s really too late.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/U_InquireMi/ U_InquireMi

    @Toni_Anthony…those are harsh but real facts. The Offspring of the crack era are now on the street. It’s a sad situation for real.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/motortongue/ motortongue

    Nothing but punks with guns, b***hes with guns…they are not GANGSTERS AT ALL! P***ys with a gat

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/infinite_question/ infinite_question

    how can 1 CITY have more CASUALTIES in 24 hours than a WAR in a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY can in the same amount of time? think about it…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/infinite_question/ infinite_question

    “To _A_ ? The once Mighty WHAT? WHO? I guess I was not born as of yet???”

    2 look at what is REPORTED by the media as evidence that there are NO strong black men left, is the reason y we are in the position WE are in. believe it or not, there are strong black men everywhere, they just dont get an article on newsone. POVERTY is the sole reason for violence in our communities, not the CHILDREN.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST/ CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST

    @Toni_Anthony and motortongue-I agree with ya’ll.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Real_bumbleclot/ Real_bumbleclot

    1st of all I wanna say my heart goes out to the family of the little angel and I pray her friend makes a speedy recovery. Now I wanna speak on the problem at hand. Its time for us to stop blaming the kids on what’s going on, its time for us to blame our selves and our parents for not being there. A child CANNOT raise another child to be a respectful adult. It was an old saying “I takes a village to raise a child.” Over time we forgot how to do that, and now its more like “I raised my child right and I don’t give a damn about your child.” We don’t give a damn about the next person, and people wanna know where this self hate in our people comes from.

    Its easy to talk about the negativity that goes on in the ghettos across America, but what are we doing about it as a people? Not a damn thang but pointing the finger at the one’s who’s struggling. How many people actually go to the hood and spread knowledge to the younger generation? If you sitting back criticizing them on the negativity and not enlighting them on the positive, giving the youth knowledge on how to be better black men and women of our future, then in my book your no better than them cause your not helping the solution but making the problem worst.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    COMMENT 2:

    I JUST saw these folk’s on Chicago’s Nightly News? A MARCH? A MARCH FOR WHAT? THEY f***EN KNOW WHO THOSE YOUNG PUNK’S ARE! THEY KNOW THE PUNKS GRAND-MOTHER’S, MOTHER’S & BABY’S MOTHER(S)), SO WHY DON’T THOSE FOLK’S QUIT BEING FAKE & PHOONY? TELL THE LAW WHO THOSE F**er’s are killing those kids! For goodness sake! March my A** People! Start singing to the CPD, the FBI, Heck WRITE Obama? OR SOMETHNG! DANG!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    To: Real_Bumbleclot! GIRL you say it takes a Village? Let a sane adult say something to one of those folks kid’s, correcting them? You know those kid’s family will jump all over you, even IF you are right correcting the kid on the spot like I was CORRECTED by other adults back when I was a child in the 60′s! Let ANOTHER adult tell my mother I was acting out, let a teacher? Man I got beat down by which ever adult saw me acting out then GOD ONLY help me when my mother found out? She’d beat me down ON THE SPOT, make me say I’m sorry to each & every adult I disrespected! This is what THE YOUNG monsters of today is missing! The parent’s act like THEY ARE SCARED OF THOSE LITTLE F**KERS! I smash the one’s in my family and if necessary? I’ll smash their trifling A** adult parent’s within my family as well! YEAH I’m that Old to do such!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Real_bumbleclot/ Real_bumbleclot

    @TonyAnthony
    I’m a man not a girl, besides it’s time for us to stop being scared of our own people. It aint no problem sitting down giving knowledge to the parents. I wasn’t around in the ’60s but I’m old enuff to remember getting my ass whipped by my neighbors. Of course nobody wants somebody to beat their kids but it aint gone hurt to spread the knowledge to uplift our kids either. The reason our kids is like that is because of the lack of knowledge, hell most of them don’t even know why they’re in that situation. You were around in the 60′s and you should know the destruction of the black communities was starting around that time, the crack epidemic was just the final blow to make sure we would be f**ked up as a people for generations to come.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Black_Doctor_Org/ Black_Doctor_Org

    It is all about “fitting in”. You a nerd if you go to school and get good grades. You a punk if you don’t fight this guy that just called you a b***. I do not understand why so many young men are falling victim to the “limelight”. As many times I’m on the bus stop with my child at 6:45am in the morning and seeing “boys” standing on the block, I wonder what the heck are you doing up this early?….It do not seem like your school is far from here. My child’s father used to be in a gang and he left because he was tired of it all….living day by day but scared to lose his life. I met him five years after the fact. I’m not like these other girls out there looking for a “thug”. If he told me he was in a gang, we would have never met again. It is not the whole section 8 and crack but also these children are scared to lose their life and fit in if they do not join a gang or act a certain way. It’s true that people do not snitch because of retaliation but its like can they kill us all?….Then who would be left?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    SORRY real_!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/stellarium/ stellarium

    The two males who targeted these two pretty litte girls are pure evil. The families of little Tanaja Stokes and Ariana Jones deserve justice. I wish Ariana a speedy recovery. The ignorate, sadistic young Black males of Chicago are terrorizing the women and children in their communities. A mass movement is needed there.

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    WTF, who in the hell goes around shooting 7 and 8 year olds. Where they the intended targets? Why… I hope they catch those bastards. They ain’t nothing but some punks. Go round shooting babies.

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