3-year-old Mehki James and 13-year-old Amaria Jones, were shot and killed in separate incidents.

The youngest victims, 3-year-old Mehki James and 13-year-old Amaria Jones, were shot and killed in separate incidents in the Austin neighborhood on the same day.

Two others, Charles Riley, 16, and Ja-Sean Francis, 17, were shot and killed near 79th and Luella in the South Chicago neighborhood on Saturday when they simply went to get snacks from a nearby store, according to Chicago police. “Children in Chicago should not have to worry about walking just blocks from home to buy candy and never returning,”