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Neighborhood in fear after 2 Chicago boys shot heading home from school

CHICAGO - A girl in her early teens carrying a heavy red backpack stood at the front steps of a home on Campbell Avenue late Thursday afternoon, hugged a boy standing there, then walked south.

She crossed an alley and lifted yellow crime scene tape to duck underneath, dropped her arm and the tape without breaking stride and passed onlookers who stepped aside for her.

Two boys, 14 and 15, had been shot here less than an hour before. The older of the two died and the younger one was in serious condition at Stroger Hospital.

As she walked away, 9-year-old Isaac Rosales

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