Five-year-old Clareon Williams sat on the couch with his dad playing on his iPad when a spray of bullets ripped through the window of the first-floor apartment, one lodging in his skull.
‘The most dangerous symptom’
"You already kind of had folks living on the edge, and this whole , even for the average person, was a lot to endure. This is still a lot to endure," said Asiaha Butler, a Chicago peace activist and president of the Resident Association of Greater Englewood, a grassroots community organization. "It was our thought that, when COVID hit, that what it would do is keep families inside, that it would bring our numbers down," he said. "But we haven’t seen that at all."
"That has been the dueling epidemic this entire year. And we’re certainly on pace in 2021 to exceed the gun violence deaths from 2020," Mueller said.
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