In the summer of 2008, a weekend of violence in Buffalo, New York, claimed the life of 16-year-old Matthew Elliott. The young male was fatally shot on a Saturday evening in July outside a dance being held at a community center on East Utica Street. His death was one of three homicides that occurred in the city over that weekend, contributing to a total of 21 homicides for the year at that point.
The shooting of Matthew Elliott was part of a spike in gun violence that law enforcement offic
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