“What’s going on?  A girl who was shot and killed after performing at obamas inagruation, now this.  What’s going on?”

Obama waves to students after speaking about measures to combat gun violence during a visit to Hyde Park Academy in Chicago. Photograph: Kevin LaMarque/Reuters

A Chicago teenager was shot and killed just hours after her sister sat on a stage behind Barack Obama, listening to the president appeal for tighter gun controls.

Janay McFarlane, 18, died from a gunshot would to the head following an incident shortly before midnight on Friday, Lake County coroner Thomas Rudd told the Chicago Sun-Times.

It was one of a number of shootings that occurred in an evening of gun violence in Chicago – Obama’s hometown and the location of his latest address to tackle the subject.

During Friday’s speech, the president noted: “Last year, there were 443 murders with a firearm in this city, and 65 of them were 18 and under. That’s the equivalent of a Newtown every four months.

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