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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 yesterday 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.

Read the full story from the Tribune’s Tess Kenny .

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