Joel Hodge and Jason McBride with Struggle of Love Foundation said victims of youth violence are getting younger and younger.
AURORA, Colo. — A shooting that killed a 14-year-old girlThe girl died and two other teens were injured in the shooting during a party at Highland Hollows Park Saturday night. No arrests have been made, and police said they have not identified a suspect or suspects yet. Police said the shooting stemmed from inside the party and was a random, one-off, violent act.
"It’s just this poison, disease, in our community that’s lasting and lasting and getting worse and worse and worse and worse," Hodge said. Hodge said a lack of firearm education is a large part of senseless violence. He said kids likely don't have a full understanding of how serious it is to possess a weapon or how quickly it can change multiple lives.
"It’s something we’ve been dealing with over and over and over for the last 10, 15 years," McBride said."And it’s something that, quite frankly, is unbelievably challenging and frustrating to deal with.""This is a problem," McBride said."It could be catastrophic and it’s turning out to be, because we are losing the only natural resources we have as Black people, as those are our young people.
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