She was there, as she was most nights, to offer companionship and care to her mother.
Now she is the one who lies in bed, in need of care.
It gives new meaning to the term “senseless shooting.”
Kathy Ann “Kat” Stewart this morning is on life support in critical condition at Crozer-Chester Medical Center.
Sunday night she was doing what she did most nights, stopping at her ailing mother’s home in the William Penn Housing Development. Her 85-year-old mother is battling cancer.
Then her familiar routine was tragically interrupted by something that is also all too routine in that section of Chester.
Gunfire.
Police believe a dozen shots were fired by more than one gunman at Union Street and Whittington Place, about a block away.
One of the bullets went through the brick wall of the home, through the headboard of the bed, and struck Stewart in the head as she rested on the bed chatting with her fiance on a cell phone.
It is not the first time street violence has haunted the Stewart family.
Kat Stewart’s fiance, the father of her three children, was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in 1995 at Eighth and Lloyd Streets.
Now her family holds a bedside vigil for Kat.
Stewart’s elderly mother is battling cancer.
But the Stewart family and many others in Chester are battling another killer scourge.
Gun violence. It has claimed another victim.
Now she is the one who lies in bed, in need of care.
It gives new meaning to the term “senseless shooting.”
Kathy Ann “Kat” Stewart this morning is on life support in critical condition at Crozer-Chester Medical Center.
Sunday night she was doing what she did most nights, stopping at her ailing mother’s home in the William Penn Housing Development. Her 85-year-old mother is battling cancer.
Then her familiar routine was tragically interrupted by something that is also all too routine in that section of Chester.
Gunfire.
Police believe a dozen shots were fired by more than one gunman at Union Street and Whittington Place, about a block away.
One of the bullets went through the brick wall of the home, through the headboard of the bed, and struck Stewart in the head as she rested on the bed chatting with her fiance on a cell phone.
It is not the first time street violence has haunted the Stewart family.
Kat Stewart’s fiance, the father of her three children, was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in 1995 at Eighth and Lloyd Streets.
Now her family holds a bedside vigil for Kat.
Stewart’s elderly mother is battling cancer.
But the Stewart family and many others in Chester are battling another killer scourge.
Gun violence. It has claimed another victim.
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