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Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton, right, and Nathaniel Pendleton, parents of Hadiya, a former King College Prep student who was shot and killed in a south side park, leave the Leighton Criminal Courts Building in Chicago after attending a hearing in 2016.
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Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton, right, and Nathaniel Pendleton, parents of Hadiya, a former King College Prep student who was shot and killed in a south side park, leave the Leighton Criminal Courts Building in Chicago after attending a hearing in 2016.
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More than 51/2 years after Hadiya Pendleton‘s fatal shooting came to symbolize Chicago’s endemic violence, opening statements are set to take place on Aug. 14, 2018, in the trial of two reputed gang members charged in the 15-year-old’s slaying.