A 12-year-old girl who disappeared from her Chicago neighborhood was found dead in an alley on the city's south side, police said.Jahmeshia Conner was last seen alive on the evening of November 15, when she aboarded a bus.
“I was just praying that it was not her,” said her mother, Birdie Lewis after getting a call from police about the discovery of a girl’s body.
Her worst fears were confirmed after she saw the collection of keyrings that police recovered from the body. She then was certain the body belonged to her daughter, a church choir member who loved to jump rope and who had recently made her school’s cheerleading squad.
The little girl's body was clothed police said, except for her socks and shoes. An autopsy revealed she had been strangled.
"She was a good child. She had excellent grades. She never ran away,'' said her aunt, Denise Lewis. "She never stayed out all night."
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