Witness forgets if he heard confession to Hadiya Pendleton’s murder

Punks and cowards killed Hadiya Pendleton. Now testimony continued Wednesday in the trial of two men charged in the murder of Hadiya Pendleton, the South Side teenager gunned down in a park just days after performing in President Obama's second inauguration in 2013. The prosecution is relying on a mostly circumstantial case with no physical evidence, and calling to the stand former gang members and friends of the defendants who were with them the day of the shooting. The trial began on Monday. On Tuesday, one alleged gang member claimed he couldn’t remember telling a grand jury he heard Kenneth Williams confess to the shooting. 


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