On August 13, 2017, Antonio Javier Lopez, aged 17, was shot and killed in Chicago, Illinois. The incident occurred in the Gage Park neighborhood on the city’s Southwest Side. Lopez, a young teen with his whole life ahead of him, became a victim of gun violence, which has tragically claimed many young lives in Chicago. His death was part of a year that saw more than 650 homicides, as the city continued to grapple with issues of violence concentrated in specific neighborhoods, often exacerbated
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