Hadiya Pendleton

Eight years after the murder of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton at a Chicago park, her family says they have finally received their last piece of justice, as the man who drove the getaway car from the scene was sentenced to 42 years in prison Tuesday.

Eight years after the murder of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton at a Chicago park, her family says they have finally received their last piece of justice, as the man who drove the getaway car from the scene was sentenced to 42 years in prison Tuesday. NBC 5’s Christian Farr has more.

A Chicago man was sentenced to 84 years in prison for fatally shooting a 15-year-old honor student a week after she performed at then-President Barack Obama’s inauguration festivities in 2013.

A jury has found a second suspect guilty Thursday of first-degree murder in the killing of a 15-year-old high school honor student whose death in 2013 became a symbol of Chicago’s random gun violence.

After only two and a half hours of deliberations, a Cook County jury has found Kenneth Williams guilty of first-degree murder and aggravated battery in the death of Hadiya Pendleton and the injury of two of her friends.

On Saturday, hundreds of people gathered in Harold Washington Park for an afternoon of reflection and celebration at the annual “Party for Peace.”

Father Michael Pfleger, the outspoken pastor at St. Sabina’s church in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, called on the State of Illinois to declare a State of Emergency during an appearance at the City Club of Chicago Monday.

A 17-year-old boy was shot to death Friday in a park named after Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old honors student at King College Prep in Chicago who was killed in a shooting in 2013.

In a nod to her past, the first lady spoke about growing up on Chicago’s South Side Tuesday evening during her commencement address to the graduating seniors at King College Prep.

A public art exhibit by the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence shows life-like sculptures of innocent victims of gun violence in the Chicago area.