Michael Ghafoor

Michael Ghafoor, a 22-year-old male, was shot and killed on January 31, 2007, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His death occurred in a period of significant gun violence in Pittsburgh, where firearms were the weapon used in 80% of the city's homicides during that time. The city was facing a high number of violent crimes, with an average of 51 homicides per year from 2000 to 2012, and a high percentage of these involved young African American men like Ghafoor.

The data show that young adults ...