On July 1, 2012, Demarcus Ervin, a 22-year-old male, was fatally shot in Chicago, Illinois. The incident took place in the city's South Side, in an area struggling with ongoing violence and heightened gang activity. Demarcus was among the many victims of gun violence in Chicago that year, a year in which the city's homicide rate surged dramatically, with more than 500 homicides recorded by the end of 2012.
The rise in homicides in Chicago during 2012 was part of a broader trend of escal
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