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  • Community ‘violence interrupters’ work to stem rising crime

    08/08/2021 12:23:40 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 5 replies
    Associated Press ^ | August 7, 2021 | Travis Loller
    When Rasheedat Fetuga became a teacher, she worked hard to help protect her students, many of them poor and from a nearby housing project. When one of her favorites was shot and killed at 16, she stood at his funeral and vowed to do more. That was the beginning of the Gideon’s Army violence interrupters, a small group that works in predominantly (b)lack North Nashville to defuse tense situations before they become violent. Their primary focus is a 228-unit housing project formally known as the Cumberland View Apartments but more commonly referred to by its nickname, Dodge City, for the...
  • Safe Streets Outreach Worker Kenyell Wilson Killed In Baltimore Thursday

    07/02/2021 3:40:43 AM PDT · by 11th_VA · 36 replies
    CBS News ^ | July 1, 2021 | Author: CBS Baltimore Staff
    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Kenyell Wilson, an outreach worker with the Safe Streets program, was shot and killed Thursday in Baltimore, police said. Wilson walked into Harbor Hospital with gunshot wounds at 4:41 p.m. and died a short time later, police said. Police have not determined where in the city the shooting occurred.Mayor Brandon Scott released a statement on Thursday evening following the news: “Safe Streets has a special place in my heart and I consider the Violence Interrupters who bravely serve this program as a part of my family. Tonight, our brother Kenyell Wilson became a victim of the gun...