Derrion's Friends

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In honor of Chicago Public School honor student, Derrion Albert, killed by brutal beating and the hundreds of other Chicago kids who have been taken from us due to gun and other violence. We will tell their stories here. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-37563713-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

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Chicago children lost to gun violence the first quarter of the year.

I can't imagine the horror when it continues to get warm outside.

RIP

Venzel Richardson, 14

Ronald Hayes, 17

Markeyo Carr, 17

Miguel Navarrette, 15 (no photo)

Marquise Harris, 16

Raymond Galloway, 16

#Chicago #chicago violence #guns #gun violence #teen violence #teens killed

2nd quarter of the year children victims of gun violence in Chicago:

RIP

Dashawn Johnson, 17

Kevin Diaz, 14

Kayshaun Hall, 17

Aaron Rushing, 15

Vaughn Holeman, 15

Endia Martin, 14

Jaquez Williams, 17 (no photo)

Jordan Means, 16

Keno Glass, 16

Gakirah Barnes, 17

Adrian Soto, 17 (no photo)

Michael Flournoy III, 16

#Chicago #teenagers shot #shootings #gun violence #Chicago violence

I know I haven't posted in forever, but this just came up in the RedEye. Please sign. I know there are so many kids who have lost their lives, but let's give Derrion some honor.

Great article on who could've been saved this year with better gun laws. Darryl Holliday for DNA Info.

Leonard Anderson, 17

RIP

#Chicago kids #gun violence #Chicago violence #l'a capone

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Peace Tournament - Portrait of Player

After being named the murder capital of America, Chicago suffered one of it’s most violent weeks earlier this month after 18 shootings happened in just 48hrs. In the wake of the violence, St. Sabina, and Joakim Noah, organized the Peace Tournament, that involved rival gang members participating in a peaceful afternoon of basketball with NBA players coaching each team. Here are a few images from last saturday.

CNN/NBA spots:

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/09/22/wbbm-chicago-peace-tournament.wbbm.html

http://www.nba.com/video/channels/originals/2013/09/24/20130924-peace-tournment.nba/index.html

#Chicago violence #gang violence

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Four years ago I covered the Derrion Albert story. It’s saddening that so many similar cases among our own community as well as beyond it have done nothing but multiply.

#Chicago violence #Derrion Albert

I can still remember sitting down in front of my computer on September 25, 2009. A video of a street fight among Chicago youth had gone viral across the nation.Â All over the news I was hearing the...

Thank you for this piece.

#Derrion Albert #Chicago #violence

RIP

Pierce Curry, 17

Anthony Dickerson, 17

Maurice Knowles, 16

Geanni Boyd, 16

Jaleel Pearson, 18

All Black teenage boys show on the West and South sides of Chicago.

#RIP #Chicago violence #gun violence #human toll

1993 - September 24, 2009

Today marks 4 years.

As we sent our kids back to school today, across supposed "Safe Passages," these were the faces of the children we lost in the second half of the summer.

Darryl Green, 17

Gizzell Ford, 8

Joseph Brewer, 16

Tyrone Hart, 18

Kenneth Barbour, 18 (no photo)

Antonio Alves, 18

Carla Eguez, 5

Daquan Boyd, 18

Omar Castel, 17

Lavander Hearnes, 14

Note: Apologies again for not updating frequently this summer. After the George Zimmerman case, I honestly could not do it. My heart was broken. It still is, but I hope people start paying attention to all of these children we continue to lose to violence.

#Chicago violence #CPS #rahm emmanuel #Chicago #violence

Harper High School has lost its first student since our shows about the high school aired in February. A sophomore named Darryl Green was found dead behind an abandoned building just four blocks west of the school. Chicago Police and the medical examiner’s office say he’d been killed by a gunshot wound to the head. He was 17.

I just can't.

RIP Darryl Green, 17.

#chicago+violence #Chicago #NPR #This American Life #Harper High School

Update

My apologies for not keeping up with this blog. This is an important project to me, but in the summer has been difficult to keep up. My heart is broken by how many kids we've lost since I last posted.

So many Chicago children gone this summer, and now we're about to send them back to school where the supposed "Safe Passages" signs are going to keep them safe from gun violence.

I'm going to post the kids who we are still mourning from the summer of 2013.

#Chicago violence #Chicago #Chicago kids #guns #gun violence

RIP Trayvon Martin, 17

We continue to demonstrate that there is no value of black male youth.