A 38% spike in homicides is upending life for residents and businesses
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In Washington Highlands, a chronically violent neighborhood in the nation’s capital, a dozen or so children who often meet up at a community center recently discussed what to do when gunfire erupts. Such lessons carry added urgency, facilitators say, amid a jump in shootings. One left an 18-year-old dead near the center in September.
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