How could the failure to address gun violence become so deep that a noteworthy American city cannot protect the life of a little boy in the fourth grade?The day he was killed,Tyshawn Lee had been playing on the swings at a local playground. It was four in the afternoon, and his grandmother’s house was barely a block away.
Children are murdered with distressing frequency in Chicago, and often in places of safety: a mother’s lap; a Fourth of July celebration; a sleepover at a friend’s house. But Tyshawn’s murder was different. The nine-year-dilapidated was executed.
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Source: theguardian.com