--- description: A cousin of basketball star Dwyane Wade was shot and killed in Chicago on Friday afternoon while pushing her baby in a stroller title: Dwyane Wade's Cousin Fatally Shot While Pushing Her Baby in a Stroller image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0338764f6f1fcdea/6988a3df5f570fa06cb2252c/dwyane-wade.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Dwyane Wade's Cousin Fatally Shot While Walking With Her Baby  by [Katie Reilly](/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 27, 2016 12:57 PM CUT  Dwyane Wade of the Chicago Bulls is introduced at a press conference on July 29, 2016 at the Advocate Center in Chicago, Illinois. Dwyane Wade of the Chicago Bulls is introduced at a press conference on July 29, 2016 at the Advocate Center in Chicago, Illinois.Gary Dineen—NBAE/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 27, 2016 12:57 PM CUT A cousin of basketball star [Dwyane Wade](http://time.com/4316831/dwayne-wade-prince-basketball-player/?iid=sr-link1 "undefined") was [shot and killed in Chicago](http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-heat/ct-chicago-shootings-violence-20160826-story.html "undefined") on Friday afternoon while pushing her baby in a stroller and walking to register her children for school. Nykea Aldridge, a 32-year-old mother of four, suffered gunshot wounds to the head and arm when two men fired shots at a man she was walking with, the [Chicago _Sun-Sentinel_ reported](http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-heat/ct-chicago-shootings-violence-20160826-story.html "undefined"). Police said she was not the intended target, and the baby in the stroller was unharmed. “Another act of senseless gun violence. 4 kids lost their mom for NO REASON,” Wade, who signed last month with the Chicago Bulls, [wrote](https://twitter.com/DwyaneWade/status/769350076162383872?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw "undefined") on Twitter. His mother, Jolinda Wade, made a statement on behalf of the family on Friday night beside her crying sister, [ESPN reported](http://www.espn.com/nba/story/%5F/id/17399395/dwyane-wade-cousin-victim-fatal-shooting-chicago "undefined"). “Just sat up on a panel yesterday, The Undefeated, talking about the violence that’s going on within our city of Chicago, never knowing that the next day we would be the ones that would be actually living and experiencing it,” Jolinda Wade said, [according to ESPN](http://www.espn.com/nba/story/%5F/id/17399395/dwyane-wade-cousin-victim-fatal-shooting-chicago "undefined"). “We’re still going to try and help these people to transform their minds and give them a different direction, so this thing won’t keep happening. We’re still going to help empower people like the one who senselessly shot my niece in the head.” > [](https://twitter.com/DwyaneWade/status/769350076162383872) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4469309/dwyane-wade-nykea-aldridge-shooting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4469309/dwyane-wade-nykea-aldridge-shooting/"},"headline":"Dwyane Wade's Cousin Fatally Shot While Walking With Her Baby","datePublished":"2016-08-27T12:57:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:14:14.498Z","description":"The mother of four was pushing her baby in a stroller","url":"https://time.com/4469309/dwyane-wade-nykea-aldridge-shooting/","keywords":["Basketball","Crime","Illinois","Guns"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0338764f6f1fcdea/6988a3df5f570fa06cb2252c/dwyane-wade.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0338764f6f1fcdea/6988a3df5f570fa06cb2252c/dwyane-wade.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Chicago Bulls Introduce Dwyane Wade","caption":"Chicago Bulls Introduce Dwyane Wade","creditText":"Gary Dineen—NBAE/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4469309/dwyane-wade-nykea-aldridge-shooting/","name":"Dwyane Wade's Cousin Fatally Shot While Walking With Her Baby"}}]}] ```