St. Louis Leads America in Child Murders — and it's Getting Worse
Clifford "Nunu" Swan III. He was just thirteen, but Clifford "Nunu" Swan III was afraid of death. Three of his cousins had been murdered in the past two years, and, unwilling to be next, Nunu told his older brother Donald about plans to obtain a gun. An ex-weed dealer who'd spent his teenage years dodging north-city trouble, Donald, then twenty, rebuked him. "You don't need a gun," he counseled. "You got your hands. You can fight." Donald always strived to protect Nunu, the soft-hearted prankster of the family. Neither of their fathers was physically around, although Nunu's dad Clifford Swan ...