Video confession in Chicago killing sealed months after public filing
by By Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune
Aug 27, 2017
3 minutes
CHICAGO_In a windowless interview room in 2013, two Chicago detectives predicted the future of the man they believed had killed Hadiya Pendleton.
"You are gonna go downstairs, and you are gonna go to county (jail)," one detective told Michael Ward. "You're gonna get a public defender, and this case gonna last two or three years while you sit in (expletive) county jail."
More than four years later, Ward is still in Cook County Jail, awaiting trial after confessing that he fired the shots that killed 15-year-old Hadiya _ a killing that attracted nationwide attention and
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