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A mother from Chicago’s South Side who lost her teenage son to gun violence said crime has worsened in the city since her childhood.

"The boys pulled up right behind our house. They shot him down in the alley. I mean, I was home. His brother was home, we found my son literally on the ground in the alleys taking his last breath," Marquita Salley told Fox News Digital.

Salley’s son, Gregory Bernard Wilson III, was shot and killed on March 13, 2023, in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. He was 16.

Police opened a homicide investigation into Wilson’s killing, according to the Chicago Sun-Times .

CHICAGO RESIDENTS BEG FOR MORE HELP AS CRIME WREAKS 'HAVOC’ ON NEIGHBORHOODS

Salley, 41, told Fox News Di

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