Gun violence is traumatizing LA’s youngest residents. Can a partnership between the police and community help?
South LA has the highest levels of gun violence in the county - local organizations want to address how that affects kids
One night in April last year, Dolores Munoz was jolted awake by a barrage of bullets ricocheting off her home. The rounds crashed through her living room window and tore through the bedroom wall of her 15-year-old daughter, who was spending the night at her cousin's house.
Instinctively, Munoz ran to check on her five other children who were in the home with her. Thankfully, none of them were harmed. Thank God my daughter wasn't here," Munoz, 35, said through a translator days later, as her children sat quietly in the living room. Bullet holes in the wall had recently been patched and the shattered front window had been covered up with plywood. If she was home, she could have been killed."
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