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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Sophie Sherry

16-year-old girl stabbed to death in Loop; year after brother was killed on South Side

Heaven Taylor was fatally stabbed twice in her chest in the first block of West Van Buren Street late Tuesday night, according to Chicago police. (Sun-Times file photo)

Chalesia Clayton was home late Tuesday when she learned her 16-year-old daughter had been stabbed in the Loop. She ran to the hospital, where her teenager had been pronounced dead — her second child killed in Chicago. 

“I just buried my oldest son last year — her older brother — and now I’ve got to bury my daughter this year,” Clayton told the Sun–Times. “There’s just too much violence out here.” 

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