In Chicago: Mother of slain boy,14: ´The city belongs to the gangbangers´

◼ Damani Henard called his mom to say he was biking to a friend's house to play video games. - Chicago Tribune

Paige got home late Tuesday night and didn't see her son, but figured he had stayed overnight. Then detectives showed up at her door.

"They were telling me my son was murdered," Paige said as she prepared to go to the morgue. "They were telling me he was riding his bike home and three guys approached him and he tried to pedal away, to get away, and he was shot twice, once in his neck and once in his chest.

"He died instantly," she said. "He was not a bad child. He was on his way home from visiting his friend."