WASHINGTON — The mother of slain Chicago teenager Hadiya Pendleton on Friday released a public service advertisement urging members of Congress to support gun-control legislation.
“When my daughter Hadiya performed at the president’s inauguration, it was the happiest day of her life,” Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton says in the ad, her voice narrating video clips of President Barack Obama’s inauguration and photos of her daughter. “A week later, she was murdered. Gunned down near her school.”
Pendleton, whose daughter was an innocent bystander to gang-related violence, says, “Congress is debating how to fix our gun laws [and] they can start with background checks for all gun sales, [so] no parent has to go through this heartbreak.”
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