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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Manny Ramos

MYSTERIOUS: West side students march for peace put down the guns | Mind Blowing Facts

Students from Daniel Webster Elementary School stage a peace march around the Lawndale neighborhood Wednesday morning, three days after five people were wounded in a mass shooting outside the West Side school. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Over a hundred students poured out of Daniel Webster Elementary School on Wednesday morning to call for peace in West Garfield Park after a Memorial Day weekend shootout left several people seriously wounded in front of their school.

“We should, as a collective, put down the guns,” 14-year-old Hailee Weeks said outside the school. “If you could put the guns down and think about if that was your child or if that was yourself, then I think more people would understand that it is more important to put it down and talk with your voice.”

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