{"id":389182,"date":"2025-11-19T05:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/389182\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T05:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:08:13","slug":"family-grieves-after-2-cousins-shot-and-killed-months-apart-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/389182\/","title":{"rendered":"Family grieves after 2 cousins shot and killed months apart in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Chicago family is grieving after twin sisters lost their young children to gun violence less than a year apart. An associate pastor is already helping the family navigate the loss of a 12-year-old girl, and now her 15-year-old cousin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It wasn’t long ago that Robert Gunn Jr., 15, was walking across the stage of his 8th-grade graduation. Over the summer, he was baptized during a mobile baptismal event outside of Roselands New Progressive Missionary Baptist Church.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“By his own decision, decided to be baptized,” said Donovan Price.<\/p>\n

Price is an associate pastor at the church and advocates for those impacted by gun violence. It’s where pastor price first met the 15-year-old and his family.<\/p>\n

“Good kid, great kid. He was a low-key kid,” Price said.<\/p>\n

Chicago police said the teen was shot and killed on Saturday afternoon<\/a> after he got into an argument with someone near his home in the Roseland neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, in February, Gunns’ 12-year-old cousin,\u00a0Deliah Batey<\/a>, was shot and killed while inside a Calumet Heights home with friends. Police initially called the shooting accidental. Two teens were charged in that shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, two sisters are forever bonded in grief over the loss of their young children.<\/p>\n

“The moms were twins,” Price said. “This family was still grieving.”<\/p>\n

Nobody is in custody for the shooting death of Robert Gunn Jr.. The family has set up a GoFundMe to help with funeral arrangements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chicago family is grieving after twin sisters lost their young children to gun violence less than a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,4222,5386,1818,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-389182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-gun-violence","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-shooting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115574636949709418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}