A young girl penned an award-winning essay about gun violence in her hometown just two years before she was shot dead in her own bedroom.
Sandra Parks, 13, was in her bedroom Thursday night in Milwaukee when someone shot into her house and killed her instantly.
In an essay she wrote two years before her death, she talked about hoping to see an end to violence in her neighborhood.
Sandra Parks (left) was shot dead as she sat in her bedroom and her mother Bernice (right) said the young girl hated violence and wrote a series of essays about how to prevent it
Isacc Barnes (left) and Untrell Oden (right) have been charged over the death of the girl
'We shall overcome has been lost in lies of who we are. Who we have become.
'We need to rewrite our story so that faith and hope for a better tomorrow is not only within us. But we believe it and we put it into action'.
Sandra's essay took third place in her school district. In it she called for more empathy and less negativity, and emphasized the importance of getting an education to make the world a better place.
She described a world where 'little children are victims of senseless gun violence' and 'there is too much black-on-black crime'.
'Sometimes, I sit back and I have to escape from what I see and hear every day,” she wrote.
'When I do, I come to the same conclusion … we are in a state of chaos'.
She penned an award-winning essay about gun violence in her hometown of Milwaukee
She told Wisconsin Public Radio that she chose to write about violence because 'all you hear about is somebody dying'
Sandra, then a sixth grader, told Wisconsin Public Radio that she chose to write about violence because 'all you hear about is somebody dying or somebody getting shot and people do not just think about whose father or son or granddaughter or grandson who it was that was just killed'.
On Friday night friends and family came together to remember the young girl who had dreams of changing the world and trying to eliminate gun violence.
Her mother Bernice Parks said: 'My baby was not violent. My baby did not like violence.
'She was a star that was trying to get out by didn’t know how/ Don’t never forget my baby', she told Pix 11.
She set up a Gofundme page to help raise money to hold a memorial service for her daughter.
Bernie wrote: 'Sandra was shot while at home. The shooter shot through the house November 19, 2018.She was a eight grader and had hope for going to college to be writer. She was just a innocent child.
Sandra's mother Bernice is inconsolable over the loss of her daughter to gun violence
Sandra's friends and family gather on Friday to remember the little girl who 'hated violence'
'This situation has been very hard on me as a mother, family and friends'.
Two men are facing homicide charges in the shooting death of Sandra Parks
Isaac Barnes, 26, and Untrell Oden, 27 and prosecutors say Barnes was the gunman in this case and Oden helped him hide his guns.
It is thought that Barnes, 26, and may have been planning to shoot his ex-girlfriend, prosecutors allege.
According to the complaint, Isaac Barnes' ex-girlfriend said Barnes approached her wearing a black mask and 'holding a large AK-47 style firearm'.
He told her: 'I was going to fan you down, but didn't because she had her kids in her parked car.
She was visiting her sister at a home Monday night near where Sandra Parks lived. It wasn't clear from the criminal complaint whether Parks had already been shot by then.
On Friday night friends and family came together to remember the young girl who had dreams of changing the world and trying to eliminate gun violence
Sandra's essay took third place in her school district. In it she called for more empathy and less negativity, and emphasized the importance of getting an education
Barnes faces charges of first-degree reckless homicide, discharging a gun into a building, and possession of a firearm by a felon.
The reckless homicide charge is punishable by up to 60 years in prison. Oden faces two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon.
Parks' mother had gone to bed at around 7 pm and was 'awoken by the sound of gunfire', prosecutors said in the complaint.
'The next thing she heard was (Sandra) yelling: 'I'm shot! I'm shot!', prosecutors said.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett had said Tuesday Sandra Barnes was in her bedroom when she was shot, but according to the criminal complaint her mother found her bleeding on the living room floor, where her siblings had been watching television.
Prosecutors also charged an acquaintance of Barnes with two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon, alleging that he had safeguarded two guns belonging to Barnes.
Barnes and Oden did not yet have attorneys listed and haven't had a bond hearing.
Police found Barnes hiding a closet in a home where they also located Oden.
In that home, police recovered one firearm in the garbage can of the living room and another gun in a bedroom, according to prosecutors.
They say Oden told detective he saw Barnes 'shooting at an unknown target as they walked from the store'.
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Main photo article A young girl penned an award-winning essay about gun violence in her hometown just two years before she was shot dead in her own bedroom.
Sandra Parks, 13, was in her bedroom Thursday night in Milwaukee when someone shot into her house and killed her instantly.
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