Two children – 8-year-old Melissa Ortega and 7-year-old Dantrell Davis – were both killed in gang crossfire in Chicago nearly 30 years apart. When it comes to promises for change, is it just politics?
The murders happened nearly 30 years apart – Melissa was killed in
last weekend, while Dantrell was gunned down in the Cabrini-Green public housing development in the fall of 1992. But both died while holding their mother’s hand.As CBS 2’s Jermont Terry reported Wednesday night, Dantrell’s murder shook Chicago at the time. Mayor Richard M. Daley got out and front and promised change at that time, just as Mayor Lori Lightfoot did on Wednesday in the wake of Melissa’s murder.
Anthony Garrett admitted to shooting and killing Dantrell accidentally in a sniper’s position from a Cabrini-Green high-rise at 1157-59 N. Cleveland Ave., as he targeted a rival gang member.“They even had means of communicating with the gangs, and the gangs themselves had morality to understand that you couldn’t fire wildly into the streets – hitting innocent children,” Chico said.
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