Enrollment is 96.7 percent black, 1.4 percent white, and 1 percent hispanic.
The victim probably thought she had a friend or two in the pack. But packs be packs, and friendship might not count if the pack turns vicious.
When neighborhoods and schools change they do so very quickly. People get trapped if they don’t get out in time.
There is, or used to be, a largely Hispanic community about a mile or so north of my home.
Then gangs started tagging the area with graffiti and the whole place fell apart. A few are still stuck there because they waited too long to get out.