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...groups to work on acting out a vocabulary word or preparing a debate case, they are endlessly in motion, sliding back and forth across the classroom, jumping up from their seats, running in and out of our door. They scream, whine and fight unless I let Hermela, Mercedes and Shavon be one group, while Justin, Hassan and Elon remove themselves to the other side of the room...
...seems, was anyone very surprised. The neighborhood was still grieving its other dead child, the girl Yummy allegedly killed two weeks ago, when he was supposed to fire on some rival gang members but shot 14-year-old Shavon Dean instead. Police descended on the gang, and Yummy became a liability. So he became a victim too. When he was found dead in a bloody mud puddle under a railway viaduct three days later, an entire city shuddered and clutched its children and looked for lessons...
Falls' niece Shavon Dean lived around the corner from Yummy and had known him growing up. One August Sunday night she was sitting in the kitchen eating Doritos, while her mother Deborah was out back grilling ribs and chicken for a family barbecue. Shavon slipped out for a few minutes to walk a friend home. She never made it back...
...semiautomatic into a crowd of kids playing football. Sammy Seay, 16, was struck in the hand. "I hit the ground," says Seay. "It was the second or third shot before I knew I had been shot. So I got up and I just ran, trying to save my life." Shavon was struck in the head and died within minutes. "Shavon never got a chance, never got a chance," her mother says...
...Roseland no one expects the gang violence to end. "Summer ain't up yet," says a man named Darryl, 27. "It's going to get worse than this." Just before Shavon Dean was killed, there had been night after night of AK-47 sprayings. The neighborhood is quiet now, Darryl explains, only because of the police and media attention. Still, the community is in shock and in mourning over the 11-year-old killer and his 14-year-old victim. "He was the baddest of bad," says Jeffrey Rowry, a local resident, "and she was the sweetest of sweet...