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Huddled around a pair of tables on the second-floor cafeteria of Chicago’s Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, mother Mellanie Washington and daughter Taniyah Tanner spoke about future plans. They prattled about diplomas to be earned, careers to build, healing to last. They laughed. They reminisced.

It was a moment more than nine years in the making.

In a hearing Wednesday afternoon, a federal judge handed down the maximum sentence to a man who earlier this summer admitted to the 2016 shooting of Washington’s son and Taniyah’s twin brother, Tavon Tanner.

U.S. District Judge Jorge Alonso sentenced Terrance White, 32, to 10 years in federal prison after White pleaded guilty in June to attempted murder in aid of racketeering activity for the nearly decade

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