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A Year After Its Launch, Philadelphia’s Crime Scene Cleanup Program Looks to Expand

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By Afea Tucker Verified
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The Trace Just days after the Fourth of July, 13 people were shot during a mass shooting in South Philadelphia. As the camera crews left and police cleared the narrow one-way street in Grays Ferry, biohazard service employees hired by the city began scrubbing away the debris, blood, and other detritus. The Trace’s Mensah M. Dean captured images of chalk circles on the sidewalk, a car riddled with bullets, and bloodstained steps.
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As Youth Violence Ticks Up in Philly, These Programs Are Trying to Keep Kids Safe

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By Afea Tucker Verified
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The Trace Kawame Curry knows firsthand what it’s like to get help from organizations focused on keeping children safe. He also knows what’s possible when that doesn’t happen. Curry’s childhood memories are filled with one of his first friends, Terry Cooley. “We would throw rocks, catch frogs, do all these things that kids are supposed to do at that age,” Curry said. Curry grew up in a housing project in Pontiac, Michigan, north of Detroit.
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A Healing Garden in Philly Honors Gun Violence Victims

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By Afea Tucker Verified
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The Trace On Easter Sunday in 2009, Terrez McCleary’s 21-year-old daughter, Tamara Johnson, was shot and killed over a dispute about a car. Johnson was a nursing student at the Community College of Philadelphia. She had dreams of being a neonatal nurse, but her life was cut short just one month after she turned 21. In the days and months that followed, McCleary felt her daughter’s story had been forgotten, just another statistic in a city known for its gun violence crisis.
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