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Trump tweets about killing of NBA star's cousin, drawing criticism

(Reuters) - The cousin of NBA star Dwyane Wade was killed in a shooting while she pushed her child in a stroller on the South Side of Chicago on Friday, local media reported.

Nykea Aldridge, 32, a mother of four, was shot in the head and arm by crossfire at about 3:30 p.m. local time on Friday in Chicago's Parkway Gardens neighborhood near a school where she had gone to register her children, the Chicago Tribune reported on Saturday.

She was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead, the paper reported.

“My cousin was killed today in Chicago.