Unique Banks (Jael Omar Burgos), age 20

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Lost to gun violence on January 23, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.

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Feb 7: Chicago Sun-Times: Prosecutors decline to charge teen arrested in mass shooting at South Shore apartment
Jan 24: Chicago Sun-Times: ‘Nobody just goes to your house and starts killing people.’ Father struggles to understand attack that killed daughter and her mother
Mother, adult daughter identified as victims killed in South Shore mass shooting
Jan 23: Chicago Sun-Times: Gunmen kill 2, wound 3 in ‘targeted home invasion’ in South Shore neighborhood
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Also killed was:

Alexandra Olmo, age 43

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