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Few schools have been impacted by gun violence as profoundly as Roxborough and Walter B. Saul High Schools, where the shooting deaths of young students bookended the academic year.
In a dream, his mom said, “he was smiling, and he just said, ‘Mom, I’m OK. I’m OK. I’m not hurting.' And that gave me strength to deal with the next day.”
The heartbroken mother of a Philadelphia teen who police say was shot to death called for an end to the city's rampant gun violence during a Friday night vigil.
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By donating his organs, his mother said, she could ensure that Jaseem’s killers would not get the last word. His story would not end with his murder.
Police found the 16-year-old on a Southwest Philadelphia street with multiple gunshot wounds to his head.