ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 11月18日 09時38分

At Veronica Lopez’s Sweet 16 party, children played among the headstones. Aunts, uncles and cousins sat on lawn chairs and striped blankets on the grass. A few feet away from Veronica’s grave, her 4 older sisters pressed candles into a red velvet cake and carefully lit them. Veronica’s mother watched them and waited for a sign from the gentle wind. “Let her blow out her own candles,” she directed her daughters, her voice hopeful. Veronica was buried in a cemetery west of Chicago in June after being shot to death at age 15. She was a friendly girl who loved swimming, labored over science projects and wanted to move away from Chicago’s violence, toward a better life. Instead, she was caught in an onslaught of gunfire here that no one has been able to stop — not the police, not the mayor, not parents or preachers. She was one of 6 people killed in gunfire in #Chicago over Memorial Day weekend. @samuelhodgson photographed Veronica’s sister, Miranda, tidying up her grave. Visit the link in our profile to read about a mother who tried to escape gangs, and the bullets that found her daughter.

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