Sunday marks one year since 8-year-old Melissa Ortega was killed by a stray bullet while walking with her mother in Chicago's Little Village.
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They vow to never forget the day a mother and her daughter were forced to duck from gunfire erupting around them as they were walking home on the sidewalk."What's really sad is the mom and her just moved here from Mexico. They were just walking across the street. She was holding her daughters hand, coming to the bank, trying to go get a cheeseburger at McDonald's," said Mural Movement founder Delilah Martinez.
"Here we have an 8-year-old victim and the aggressor is 16-years-old. Just eight years apart. So definitely, we have a problem here," said Baltazar Enrique, the president of Little Village Community Council.
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