Within days of Mayor Justin Bibb addressing fears of a summer of violence, police and paramedics crisscrossed Cleveland, chasing shootings that killed two people and injured 21 in a span of three days.
in violent crime Thursday, just hours before the first slayings. They urged residents to help police.
Nearly two hours later, Daquan Parker, 25, was shot and killed outside Union Liquor, a store at Union Avenue and East 124th Street in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. “The crimes are impulsive, and a lot of times these are not crimes of opportunity; they are interpersonal,” Griffin said. “The youths who commit these crimes are still maturing.”
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