Milwaukee’s sister city sent the gun that killed Sandra Parks

Bernice Parks, whose 13-year-old daughter, Sandra, was killed by a stray bullet that struck her after piercing a window to her home is shown at a Memorial Concert for Milwaukee’s Killing of Innocents Friday, December 21, 2018 at All People’s Lutheran Church, 2600 N. 2nd St. in Milwaukee, Wis. | Photo by Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. PHOTO USED BY PERMISSION MAY NOT BE REPUBLISHED

When I first learned about the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Sandra Parks in 2018, one of the most urgent questions I had was about the origin of the AK-47 style weapon that ended the Milwaukee eighth-grader’s life.

More specifically, I wanted to know how the weapon got into the hands of a convicted felon who used it in a vendetta to recklessly fire six shots into Sandra’s home on N. 13th St., where one of the bullets shattered her bedroom window and struck her in the upper body.

Those questions were all the more pressing given the fact that Sandra’s killing had made headlines around the world . This was due to the fact that two years prior to being fatally shot, Sandra had written an award-winning essay in which she decried the very gun violence that ultimately claimed her life.

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