On May 10, 2010, Thomas Davis, aged 21, was shot and killed in Philadelphia on the 700 block of Rockland Street. His death was part of an overall trend of rising gun violence that had plagued the city for several years. Philadelphia saw a total of 306 homicides in 2010, a slight increase from the year prior. Young men, particularly between the ages of 18 and 34, represented a significant portion of these victims, and Davis was among the many lives lost in an environment of high crime rates and i
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