Hadiya Pendleton, Honors Student Who Performed at Inaugural Events, Shot to Death in Chicago, Blocks From Obama's Home

Here's your national gun crisis, or it should be if American politics wasn't FUBAR.

At the Chicago Tribune, "January homicide count worst since 2002" (via Memeorandum).

And, "Girl who performed at Obama inaugural events slain on South Side," and Teen shooting victim was 'slaughtered,' says brother, 10," and "

Also at London's Daily Mail, "Honors student, 15, who performed in school band at Obama inauguration falls victim days later to Chicago murder epidemic - just a few blocks from the President's home."

Photo Credit: J A Y Dubb on Twitter.