Others were law-abiding residents of neighborhoods where gunfire is nightly background noise. Many of the slain were young men bereft of hope and living perilously, maybe armed and dangerous themselves, tempting what came. As of Friday, 145 homicides had been recorded in Washington this year, up 46 percent from the same period in 2017. But there’s a more insidious strain of gun violence in the nation, the epidemic kind that poor neighborhoods know best. Sporadic mass shootings in the United States - including a rampage last week that left 12 victims dead in a California country-music bar - have fueled ideological fights over the Second Amendment and public safety, over bump stocks and background checks.
Steve was attending Friendship Collegiate Academy when he was killed. The photo was taken during a celebration of Steve’s graduation from middle school. In January, Tiffanie Jones holds a cellphone displaying a picture of her, Steve and his sister.
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