Two Men Charged with Murder of 15-Year-Old Who Performed at Obama’s Inauguration

Two Chicago men were charged in the death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, a girl who performed at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration.

Eighteen-year-old Michael Ward and twenty-year-old Kenneth Williams from Chicago will face trial on first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm in the assault, which also injured two others, RT reported.

The Chicago police arrested Ward and Williams over the weekend.

Pendleton was part of the King College Prep band that performed in Washington during the re-inauguration festivities. Police allege that she and her friends were shot in Kenwood’s Harsh Park after school on January 29 when a man jumped a fence and fired on the group.