Chantel Grant and Andrea Stoudemire, two young mothers from Chicago who were involved in local efforts to tamp down violence in their local community, were killed in a drive-by shooting over the weekend.

According to NBC News, Grant and Stoudemire were fatally shot last Friday at a corner where members of Mothers/Men Against Senseless Killings, a group they volunteered with, had been known to gather.

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Local police reportedly said that a gunman in a blue SUV had fired rounds into a crowd of people the two women had been standing with shortly after approaching the area.

In a news conference on Sunday, Tamar Manasseh, the founder of the local group, described Grant, who was 26 years old, as "a dedicated mother."

Manasseh said that Stoudemire, who was 36 years old, was "somebody who would stick up for other young women in the community, even if she didn't know them."

She went on to say that “for mothers to be killed in a place where mothers go to seek safety and sisterhood, I take that as a personal threat.”

“Enough is enough. I'm tired of being scared,” she added.

Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department, told NBC News on Tuesday that no arrests have yet been made in the shooting.

However, police told the news agency that they believe a man who had also been injured in the shooting may have been a target.

"We have no evidence to suggest the women were the intended targets," Guglielmi said.