The violence impacted Denverites of all ages -- the youngest homicide victim was 4 years old and the oldest was 74
, but it’s still significantly higher than the number of killings in the 2010s. In 2021, 96 people were killed in Denver, the highest number of homicides in the city since 1981.
But Denver police noted a troubling continuous increase in the number of teens and children being killed and wounded in the city’s violence. Once, when Burton was 5 or 6 years old, he noticed Watkins hadn’t picked out anything for herself. He then refused to choose anything.Burton was simultaneously the man of the house and an unabashed momma’s boy, she said. He was the clown who loved to push his family member’s buttons. He wanted to play arena football, despite Watkin’s warnings that a career in professional football was unlikely. He was ambitious and headstrong, she said.
“The ability to resolve conflict in a peaceful manner is something that is lost on society today,” he said. “We are seeing more and more often people resolving conflict with guns.” “We’re interrupting that violence,” he said. “We’re doing everything we can to interrupt future violence and we’re holding them accountable so these offenders can’t continue to victimize people in our community.”
More than a dozen young children lost a parent in the killings, according to families’ obituaries and fundraisers.A former educator, Amani volunteered extensively with Denver Public Schools. He was shot and killed outside his apartment complex on April 4. His children were in fifth and seventh grade.“I hope you’re doing better up there and that you’re watching down over me,” his oldest daughter wrote in his obituary.
“I’m hopeful,” Thomas said. “I think that there still are economic stressors that are impacting people… I don’t know that we’ve truly recovered from all of that.”
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