UNINTENDED TARGETS: Story Summary: TAVON TANNER, 11, is one of 24 children 12 or younger shot in Chicago in 2016. This is his story. Even in the daily deadly chronicle of 2016's Chicago violence, Monday, August 8, stood out: the city's deadliest day in 13 years. Nineteen people were shot, nine of them killed. Among the wounded was a 10-year-old boy who had been playing on his porch on West Polk Street in the Lawndale neighborhood. Tavon Tanner. Travon, carried the bullet in his small body since the August night, it pierced his back near the base of his spinal cord and ripped upward, ravaging his pancreas, his stomach, his spleen, a kidney, his left lung. Tavon, sometimes texted his mother in the middle of the night to tell her that it hurt. From the first day of January through the middle of December this year, 24 children 12 or younger were shot in Chicago. Shot stepping out of a car. Playing in the street. In front of a home. Outside a Golden Fish & Chicken restaurant. They were shot in the jaw, the chest, the face, the arm, the groin, the back, the foot, the leg, the abdomen, the head. A one-year-old in the back seat of a car was struck in the neck. Jamia, Jaylene, Khlo'e, Tacarra, Zariah, Corey, Devon. Their names varied, some publicly named only as John or Jane Doe, but all were considered ''unintended targets,'' children who just happened to be in the way when the bullets flew. Winner of The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Photography for the Chicago Tribune, their first Feature Photography Pulitzer and Staff Photographer: E. Jason Wambsgans, first Pulitzer win as well.
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TAVON TANNER, 11, was shot on his West Polk Street porch in August, with his mother Mellanie Washington (pictured) next to him. He was in the hospital until late September, the result of the initial surgery followed by infection.
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October 17, 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - TAVON TANNER, 11, tears up before surgery at Lurie Children's Hospital to remove a bullet that pierced his body in August.
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Oct 17, 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - TAVON TANNER, 11, undergoes surgery at Lurie Children's Hospital to remove the bullet he was shot with on his West Polk Street porch in August, with his mother MELLANIE WASHINGTON and twin sister TANIYAH next to him.
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October 14, 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - TAVON TANNER, 11, was shot on his West Polk Street porch in August, with his mother and twin sister next to him. He was in the hospital until late September, the result of the initial surgery followed by infection. Photographed at his aunt's home where he has been staying in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood.
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October 17, 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - The bullet that was removed from the shoulder of Tavon Tanner, 11. Tanner was shot on his West Polk Street porch in August, with his mother Mellanie Washington and twin sister Taniyah next to him on August 8, 2016.
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Innocent gunshot victim TAVON TANNER, 11, is comforted by his mother MELLANIE WASHINGTON after undergoing surgery at Lurie Children's Hospital to remove the bullet he was shot with on his West Polk Street porch in August.
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Oct. 17, 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - TAVON TANNER, 11, lies in his bed after a bullet was removed just below his left shoulder at Lurie Children's Hospital in August with his mother MELLANIE WASHINGTON next to him.
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TAVON TANNER, 11, on his way to school. Tanner has started attending school for a few hours a week after recovering from his gunshot injuries he received when he was shot on his porch on August 8, 2016.
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TAVON TANNER, 11, was shot on his West Polk Street porch in August, with his twin sister TANIYAH next to him. He was in the hospital until late September, the result of the initial surgery followed by infection. Photographed at his aunt's home where he has been staying in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood.
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TAVON TANNER, 11, on his way to school. Tanner has started attending school for a few hours a week after recovering from his gunshot injuries he received when he was shot on his porch in August.
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