Kids said they want to reduce gun violence but also to have more adult presence in their lives.
City leaders Saturday morning focused on the issue of teen violence in a special town hall meeting to give neighbors a chance to speak out and talk with each other.
Billy Hayes, a junior at Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men's Englewood campus, said there is one main thing he wants to see change. Young people have not only been victims but offenders as well. In February, 15-yera-old anthony Brown was charged as an adult with first degree murder in the death of 15-year-old Michael Brown. He is also charged with carjacking a rideshare driver at gunpoint. And an 11-year-old boy has been charged with carjacking two women at gunpoint in November in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood."If you don't have the right guidance, you want to go that route," he said.
Michael Britton from the Austin neighborhood had a question: What is the city doing to get the youth involved in making decisions to better their community?
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