On November 2, 2016, Tidarrius M. Smith, a 31-year-old male, was fatally shot in Chicago during a year that saw a major spike in the city's homicide rate. The incident was part of a broader wave of violence affecting Chicago in 2016, a year that recorded over 760 homicides, which was a drastic increase from the previous year. This significant rise in homicides was largely attributed to increased gun violence, exacerbated by reductions in policing tactics such as stop and frisk, which some believ
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