On the street, Gakirah Barnes was called “KI,” an abbreviation of her first name. In the weeks leading up to her death, she was also known as “Lil’ Snoop,” for the female shooter in the ...

Mostly, 17-year-old Gakirah Barnes was known as “K.I.” in the real life and death world of Chicago gangs. And as K.I., she became a kind of mythic figure in social media, a diminutive gap ...

Barnes, whose own father was shot to death in 1997 when she was less than ... Reporter Frank Main said at the time: 'The novelty of Gakirah the gang assassin being shot down was huge.

Gakirah Barnes boasted about "killing 17 people" and ... And a hooded man shot Gakirah nine times on a Chicago street and she bled to death at just 17 year s old. "She was thought to be one ...

Four years ago, after learning a friend had been slain, a Chicago street gang member posted a praying hands emoji on her Twitter account lamenting the death. Gakirah Barnes’ grief quickly turned ...

Rumours surrounding the killer of 17-year-old Gakirah "K.I." Barnes in 2014 have seemingly been put to bed with the release of unsealed police documents. The teenager was reportedly responsible ...

"It's an ongoing war and we don't know what for." Seventeen-year-old Gakirah Barnes was fatally shot Friday around 3:30 p.m. in the 6400 block of South Eberhart Avenue in the city's Woodlawn ...

Mostly, 17-year-old Gakirah Barnes was known as “K.I.” in the real life and death world of Chicago gangs. And as K.I., she became a kind of mythic figure in social media, a diminutive gap ...