CHICAGO (WGN) - Community members came together Saturday on the South Side to honor the memory of Hadiya Pendleton 12 years after she was murdered.

Hadiya's Promise held its 12th annual Party 4 Peace to help raise awareness for gun violence prevention.

This year's party brought out hundreds of people to Hadiya Pendleton Park in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood.

"We called this event today a party for peace, because there was no way we could have partied when Hadiya left us," Hadiya's mother Cleo Cowley said.

Hadiya was 15 years old when she was shot and killed in the same park where Saturday's event was held. The shooting happened just days after she performed at former President Barack Obama's second inauguration as a member of her high school marching band.

Cowley said several of

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