Children have been struck by stray bullets while sitting in the back seat with headphones, going to get ice cream and grabbing a jacket from the car on a cold night.
Statistics from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, too, show a spike this year in gun-related deaths among youth.
Josephine Rendon holds her son’s comforter outsider her sister-in-law’s home on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022 in Houston. Rendon’s 8-year-old son, Paul Vasquez, was killed in their house from a drive-by shooting in June, she’s been sleeping with the blanket ever since. / Rendon shows photos of her son, Paul Vasquez.
Some teenagers are losing their lives in shootings as a result of their involvement in such criminal activity — they “live by the sword, die by the sword,” he said.But systemic problems like racism and poverty play a role in those decisions, too, said Brandon Denton, director of My Brother’s Keeper, an organization backed by the Houston Health Department that serves boys and young men of color.
Black and Hispanic youth are disproportionately affected by gun violence in the Houston area, according to the medical examiner’s office data. They make up 88 percent — all but five — of the homicide gun deaths among children this year.
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