On June 16, 2016, Demetrius Archer, a 20-year-old man, was fatally shot in Chicago during a time when the city faced a particularly high rate of gun violence. Archer was one of many young men lost to violence that year, contributing to a broader wave of homicides that impacted Chicago’s neighborhoods significantly. The city experienced a staggering total of 764 homicides in 2016, which marked one of the most violent years in recent memory. Much of this violence occurred in neighborhoods plague
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