The Halloween mass shooting in the East Garfield Park neighborhood drew immediate concern from city leaders last year. But victims say the support they were promised never meaningfully materialized.
It has been a year and Vickie Patterson still struggles to walk out the door. The East Garfield Park resident tries hard to leave the house, nudged by her therapist to overcome her fear. She’s starting to walk more instead of taking Ubers. She’s riding the bus too, though she feels the need to scan the passengers who board. “It’s just a lot of enemies outside in this world,” she said. “You don’t know who they are.
So that’s the plan and that’s why we need to work in lockstep with the community,” Snelling told City Council members during the CPD’s budget hearing Tuesday. Cherice Patterson said she was promised therapy and financial support immediately after the shooting. The people who made the promises haven’t been in contact, she added. A therapist came to her house twice, but didn’t return. She had been going to physical therapy, but now goes to the gym by herself instead.
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