RIP
Posted on February 10, 2016
Aaren O’Connor grew up in southern California but it is in Chicago, where she was shot to death, that her father hopes her legacy lives on.
“People need to know what’s going on and what kind of loss is taking place here,” said David O’Connor, who is helping to raise money in his daughter’s name for at-risk children in Chicago. “I want her name and her voice to be the impetus for bringing all this violence to an end. I know that’s asking a lot.”
His 25-year-old daughter was found struck in the head by a stray bullet around 7:30 p.m. Friday, sitting in her car near her home in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood, talking on the phone with her family back in San Diego, according to police and the family.
“She was having trouble speaking,” David O’Connor said. “She didn’t know where she was. She kept saying her head hurts, her head hurts. I thought maybe she was having a stroke or something.”
O’Connor’s father said he has been told by police that someone was being chased down the street, turned around and fired shots at people pursuing him around 7:30 p.m. One of the bullets hit his daughter, David O’Connor said.
We don’t have much to add other than we’ll speculate that those involved weren’t running home from choir practice nor will Ms O’Connor be the last innocent victim of jagoffs making poor life choices.
A Memorial Fund has been set up in honor of Ms O’Connor.