Many of the victims, of course, are innocents caught in the middle of gang conflicts. A front page story in the Tribune earlier in the week highlighted Khlo'e Chatman, one of at least five children younger than 10 shot in Chicago so far this year. Weeks shy of her second birthday, Khlo'e was shot in the back seat of her aunt's car on the West Side when someone opened fire from a car moving in the opposite direction. A single bullet pierced the trunk and flattened before lodging at the base of the girl's skull, but a few days later she was prancing around at home, digging candy out of her bag.