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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Allison Novelo

‘I lost all hope.’ Mother demands justice for 7-year-old son Jeremiah Moore, shot to death as he slept in family van blocks from home

Ollie Jean Holiness demands justice for her slain 7-year-old son, Jeremiah Moore, during a news conference at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters Wednesday morning. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Ollie Jean Holiness remembers the “constant gunfire” that seemed to come from everywhere, trapping her and her family in a van less than a minute from their home in East Chicago.

“My son thought he heard fireworks,” Holiness said. “It threw me off at first, but then I realized we weren’t hearing fireworks. We were hearing gunfire — we were undergoing actual gunfire.”

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