Matthew Herring, a 32-year-old male, was fatally shot on December 28, 2016, in Chicago, Illinois. His death came at the end of a particularly violent year for the city, which had one of its worst homicide rates in decades. The year 2016 saw a staggering 762 homicides, making it the deadliest year in Chicago since the 1990s. The violence was largely concentrated in the South and West Side neighborhoods, where gang activity and easy access to illegal firearms contributed to the high number of shoo
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