Sandra Parks, a 13-year-old girl from Milwaukee who wrote an award-winning essay about gun violence and its effects on kids like her, died on Monday night after being hit by a stray bullet.

"Little children are victims of senseless gun violence," she wrote in the 2016 essay, according to CNN. "I sit back and I have to escape from what I see and hear every day. When I do; I come to the same conclusion ... we are in a state of chaos."

Parks died after being hit by one of reportedly several bullets that shattered her window on Monday night as she watched television.

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"She took it like a soldier," Tatiana Ingram, Parks's sister, told the news agency. "She just walked in the room and said, 'Mama, I'm shot.' ... The bullet wasn't even for her."

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) said at a recent news conference that Parks’s death “was caused by someone who just decided they were going to shoot bullets into her house and she's dead," according to CNN.

Two men have since reportedly been charged in the shooting. It remains unclear whether her home was targeted.

While speaking to Wisconsin Public Radio last year, the young girl said she chose to write about gun violence because it was “all you hear about.”

"All you hear about is somebody dying or somebody getting shot and people do not just think about whose father or son or granddaughter or grandson who it was that was just killed," she told the publication.

Parks entered the eighth grade at Keefe Avenue School shortly before the shooting. She was in the sixth grade when she wrote the essay about gun violence, which went on to win third place in her school district's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest.

"Our first truth is that we must start caring about each other," Parks wrote in the essay. "We need to be empathetic and try to walk in each other's shoes. ... We shall overcome, when we love ourselves and the people around us. Then, we become our brothers keeper."