Teenage girl who performed at Barack Obama inauguration shot dead "As usual, the bad guy aims, but he never hits the other bad guy," her godfather, Chicago police officer Damon Stewart said. The park where Hadiya was shot is about a mile away from Mr Obama's Chicago home. Chicago is struggling to control an epidemic of gang violence, which helped push the city's murder rate up to 506 people in 2012. The city has already logged more than 40 murders so far this year. The White House said that Mr Obama is praying for Hadiya's family. "It's a terrible tragedy any time a young person is struck down with so much of their life ahead of them, and we see it far too often," spokesman Jay Carney said. And as the president has said, we will never be able to eradicate every act of evil in this country, but we - but if we can save any one child's life, we have an obligation to try when it comes to this scourge of gun violence.