Sandra Parks Milwaukee shooting: Girl who penned essay on.
Sandra Parks wrote an award-winning essay about how the hope inspired by Martin Luther King was being lost in the turmoil of life in her home town of Milwaukee. The schoolgirl concluded that “we are.
When she was in sixth grade, Sandra Parks wrote an award-winning essay about gun violence and crime in her hometown, Milwaukee. On Monday, two years after she described how “we are in a state.
Sandra wrote of seeing “examples of chaos almost every day” and lamented “little children” who were victims of “senseless gun violence,” in her award winning essay commemorating the life of Martin Luther King. Isaac Barnes, 26, was arrested and accused of firing the fatal shots into Parks’ Milwaukee living room. Police now say the suspect may have been planning to shoot his ex.
Parks started off her powerful essay expressing her desire to sit back and escape from what she saw and heard every day. But it isn't that easy and for young Sandra Parks, there was no escape from her city's chronic gun violence problem. It is no secret that gun violence has gotten out of control in America. For some, we only see its consequences on the nightly news, others experience the.
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Bernice Parks, left, is consoled following the death of her daughter. Credit: AP Bernice Parks, Sandra's mother, told police she was awakened by gunshots shortly before 8pm, according to a.
Sandra Parks, a 13-year-old girl from Milwaukee who wrote an award-winning essay about gun violence and its effects on kids like her, died on Monday night after being hit by a stray bullet.