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Chicago
“It’s really just ... something you shouldn’t have to hear.”
City Limits
Mass shootings pushed the issue to the fore, but these excerpts from our City Limits series tell the stories of the everyday gunfire victims who still go ignored.
When Stevie Moore’s child was murdered in Memphis, he wanted revenge. Instead, he vowed to stop others from acting on that impulse.
Accounts from the front lines of urban gun violence. This week: Portland, Oregon, where a homicide rocked a peaceful neighborhood the night after the Roseburg college shooting.
Accounts from the front lines of urban gun violence. This week: Stories from Houston, Texas, where a rash of brutal shootings and a rising homicide rate have left residents and officials with more questions than answers.
Accounts from the front lines of urban gun violence. This week: Two prominent Chicago activists on what it's like to lose a loved one to a fatal shooting after fighting so hard to stop them.
Accounts from the front lines of urban gun violence. This week: Stories from a capital city where murders have already matched last year's total, and shootings are spilling outside the hardest-bitten neighborhoods.
Accounts from the front lines of urban gun violence. This week: Hartford, Connecticut.
Accounts from the front lines of urban gun violence. This week: Baltimore, Maryland.
Accounts from the front lines of urban gun violence. This week: A Midwestern city battles an all-American problem.