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Fifteen-year-old Swaysee Rankin was loved. The friends and relatives who gathered last week to honor his life and death wanted to make sure everyone knew it, so they brought balloons, permanent markers and gluesticks to his vigil. They took turns writing messages on balloons and sticking photos of their friend to poster boards tacked to a wall. They offered each other half-hugs and took ...
Swaysee Rankin, 15, helped save the life of 10-year-old La’Mya Sparks in 2020. Six months later, Swaysee was hurt in a shooting near the scene of the previous attack.
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Her daughter was one of the first people to check on Swaysee at the hospital, just like Swaysee had done for her every day. Swaysee’s family said he and his cousin were out of surgery Tuesday and were talking. The teens were walking on a sidewalk in the 8200 block of South Coles Avenue around 9:30 p.m. when someone in a car fired shots, according to Chicago police. The car, possibly a red Cherokee Jeep, backed up south on Coles and sped off. Swaysee’s mother, Ashley Jackson, told reporters outside Comer Children’s Hospital Tuesday that the shooting appeared to be random.
Boy, 13, shot a block from where he aided 10-year-old girl wounded last fall By Sun-Times Media Wire article Swaysee Rankin (left) was critically wounded in a shooting Monday, six months after he helped save the life of his close friend La’Mya Sparks (right) in another shooting. (Provided) CHICAGO - When 10-year-old La’Mya Sparks was shot in the back last fall, her 13-year-old friend Swaysee Rankin took off his shirt and applied pressure to her wound, staying with her until paramedics arrived. Six months later, tragedy struck the friends again. This time it was Swaysee who was shot as he walked with his 14-year-old cousin Monday night in the South Chicago neighborhood, just a block from the earlier shooting.
Holiday gifts, including a flat screen television, were placed on the family's front porch. La'Mya Sparks was overwhelmed but thankful after the 5th grader got the surprise of a lifetime after spending months recovering. Her mother, Shawnta Williams, said she is thankful for everything. "The past couple of month were a lot. I never thought anything like that would happen to one of my kids," Williams said. Community activist Andrew Holmes, who lost his own daughter to gun violence in 2015, helped to give the family a bit of Christmas magic after a challenging year. "My daughter, I can't do Christmas for her, but I can do it for this baby," Holmes said.