CHICAGO, IL. (THECOUNT) — Congressman Sean Casten says his teenage daughter has died.
Gwen Casten was pronounced dead at the family home. Her death comes days after her father spoke of his ‘tremendous pride’ after she organized training on how save someone’s life from a gunshot wound.
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A cause of death was not provided.
Casten (D-Ill.) on Monday evening announced that his 17-year-old activist daughter, Gwen, had died:
“This morning, Congressman Casten’s beloved daughter, Gwen (17), passed away. The Casten family requests privacy, and we will be issuing no further comment during this heartbreaking time,” Casten tweeted.
Days before her death, Casten said he had ‘tremendous pride’ in his daughter She was an anti-gun violence advocate and organized training in her school to teach kids how to pack a gunshot wound Last year, Gwen and her father co-wrote an article about the Capitol insurrection.
The teenager died at the family’s Downers Grove home, police told the Chicago Tribune.
Downers Grove police officers were called to the house just before 7am ‘for an unresponsive 17-year-old female’, the police said, according to the outlet. ‘First responders determined that the subject was deceased.’
Gwen was active in the political sphere and followed in the footsteps of her father by fighting for social causes that she was passionate about, such as gun control and the March For Life.
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