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Dwyane Wade's cousin, a mother of four, shot dead in Chicago

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Dwyane Wade's Chicago homecoming has coincided with a tragic incident for he and his family.

Nakiya Aldridge, a 32-year-old mother of four and cousin of the Bulls guard, was shot and killed in Chicago on Friday while with one of her children.

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According to the Chicago Tribune, Aldridge was walking the child in a stroller with a man near an elementary school on Chicago's south side, on her way to register a child for school, when two other men approached from behind and opened fire.