President Obama called the family of a Chicago teenager who was gunned down about a mile from his Kenwood neighborhood home this week. Courtney Maxwell, the pastor for Hadiya Pendleton, said the president called to express his condolences and said it meant a lot to the Pendleton family. Maxwell did not provide any details about the conversation.

Pendleton, who performed with her school band at Obama’s inauguration, was gunned down in a Kenwood neighborhood park as she and about a dozen schoolmates were sheltering themselves from the rain under a canopy on Tuesday.

Police have said neither Hadiya nor the people she was with were in a gang, but it is believed the shooter mistook someone in the crowd for a rival gang member, and shot at them. A total of $30,000 is being offered as a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for Hadiya’s death.