On the morning of Dec. 4, 1969, Nwhai Nefahito was in the Near West Side house where local and federal police stormed in and assassinated Black Panther leaders Mark Clark and Fred Hampton.

Nefahito was shot twice, once in the hand and once in the leg, as a police officer fired an automatic rifle through the wall of 2337 W. Monroe St. into the bedroom where she had been sleeping.

She saw then 22-year-old Clark — who she described as a quiet, humble person who would watch over the room — be fatally shot.

Until last month, she hadn’t been back to the home where she saw two of her friends die.

Wednesday night, though, she joined others who had survived the raid, as well as other former Black Panthers, as they dedicated a plaque to the site 56 years after the assassination.

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