Family plans balloon release for 14-year-old Chicago boy shot and killed in Indiana
WHITING, Ind. -- It has been nearly one month since a teen from Chicago was murdered while visiting family in Whiting, Indiana.Damien Abenante-Villa's loved ones have planned a balloon release for 5 p.m. Saturday, with the goal of keeping the crime in the spotlight to solve the murder.Damien, 14, was visiting Whiting, Indiana to celebrate his cousin's 15th birthday. At 5:20 p.m.
Damien was a freshman at De La Salle Institute in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. On Thursday, fellow students honored his memory – asking for an end to gun violence. Damien's aunt says it was heart-wrenching to let his mother in Chicago know what happened to her son.'Words can't explain it. You know, it's always been, him and her - him and her - like always. That was, of course, any mother knows the bond that they have with their child,' said Nicole Abenante.
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