In the winter of 2014, a season that should have been filled with holiday cheer, the city of Buffalo, New York, was instead marked by a surge in violence. On the evening of December 19th, this wave of tragedy claimed the life of 16-year-old Jamilah Furqan. A young female with her entire life ahead of her, Jamilah found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time on Grant Street. Gunfire erupted, and in the chaotic moments that followed, she was fatally wounded. A 20-year-old man was also injure
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