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Nearly 30 heartbroken relatives of loved ones whose slayings remain unsolved assembled outside a South Side police headquarters Wednesday morning imploring detectives to push harder. “When we don’t get no justice, we don’t get no peace,” they chanted in English and Spanish pacing outside Area 1 police headquarters, 5101 W. Wentworth Ave.

, some grasping signs. “What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now.



” Among those looking for answers were relatives of Ariana Molina, the 9-year-old girl killed last month in a Back of the Yards mass shooting that wounded 10 others, including her , who remain hospitalized weeks later, according to relatives. “We need justice for my daughter,” Jose Molina told the Chicago Sun-Times. “We need to make sure this doesn’t happen to anybody else.

” Ariana Molina, 9, was killed in a mass shooting last month outside her Back of the Yards home that left 10 relatives wounded. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Baltazar Enriquez, the director of the Little Village Community Council, told reporters the police department should solve its cases as quickly as it cleared the shooting death of Officer Luis Huesca, who was in Gage Park after his shift late last month. “Some of these mothers have been waiting two years for justice,” Enriquez said.

“Officer Huesca’s mother, all she needed was 10 days.” Baltazar Enriquez (left) rallies with families calling on Chicago police to urgently and thoroughly investigate the cases of their loved one.

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