Shamiya Adams remembered 1 year after stray bullet killed 11-year-old

Sunday, July 19, 2015
CHICAGO (WLS) -- It was an emotional day as those who loved 11-year-old Shamiya Adams marked the anniversary of her death.
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Sunday marks one year since the girl was shot and killed by a stray bullet while attending a sleep-over in the city's Garfield Park neighborhood.

Her great-grandmother attended the vigil and balloon release, asking for young men to put the guns down.
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