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In the United States, two activist mothers against gun violence have been killed in south Chicago, shot by suspected gang members, the state police said on Wednesday. Illinois.

Chantell Grant, 26 years old and Andrea StoudemireAmong the 36 volunteers of Mothers Against Senseless Killings, a group fighting street violence, died last Friday after being shot from a car in a corner of a south Chicago neighborhood. .

The badailants were alleged members of gangs who were trying to target two rivals from the Afro-American neighborhood of Englewood, one of the most problematic in the city.

Neighborhood neighbors where the two women were shot dead raised $ 16,000 to offer an information reward to arrest those responsible.

Mothers Against Senseless Killings was created in 2015 after the death of another mother in the same corner of the 75th and Stewart Streets, where Grant and Stoudemire were killed.

Tamar Manbadeh, Founder of the anti-violence group, she told local media that mothers patrolled the neighborhood every day, as well as providing food and advice to young people to avoid violence.

"We are trying to create a safe place where people can learn to be neighbors and not kill each other," he added, quoted by the EFE news agency.

The violence caused by shooting, stray bullets and gang attacks is the leading cause of death during the summer in Chicago, where official statistics show 281 homicides up to July 28.