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...gang killings hit a record high last year, accounting for 430 of the city's 1,100 murders, in part because efforts to extend the truce to the Latino gangs of the city's east side have failed. The rising body count is due partly to the popularity of multivictim drive-by shootings. "The gang age is getting much younger," says Danny Hernandez, founder of the Hollenbeck Youth Center in the mostly Chicano Boyle Heights. "It used to be 17 or 18. Now it's 10-, 11- or 12-year-olds doing the triggering. And now they spray the areas...
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