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Gun Violence and children • La violencia armada y la niñez

Posted February 9th, 2018

I was sent to the home shortly after the death to comfort a family I had never met. The case sheet read: young, male, black, single, Baptist, terminal cancer. The GPS guided me deep into the heart of Chicago’s South Side. My destination was Englewood, a poverty-stricken area that often makes the headlines due to gun violence.