Posts tagged school shooting statistics

Youth caught in crosshairs of cycles of gun violence. Is anybody listening?

JACKSON, Miss. — Cassio Batteast, a community advocate in Jackson, recently sat down with 20 of the students in the local school district who were causing the most trouble.

Gun ViolenceKatherine MitchellApril 24, 2019Mississippi Center for Investigative Reportingmississippi, gun violence in mississippi, guns, targeting gun violence project, school shooting statistics, parkland shooting

Ex-juvenile offender finds key to stem youth crime: Give kids hope

JACKSON, Miss. — Tommie Mabry was 12 when a bullet grazed him while he was burglarizing a home he thought was empty.