Their fathers died in gunfire in the ’90s. Then they did, too. What will happen to their sons?
9/19/21
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from The Washington Post,
9/18/21:
“I want my daddy!” Chase suddenly cried out, white and red frosting on his ear and shirt. “I miss my daddy!”
The burst of anger and sadness from the little boy, whose father, DeWayne Shorter III, was shot to death on a District street in January, was all too familiar to the people who surrounded Chase during his August party.
Jeziah’s father, Isaac Aull Jr., was killed in a shooting in D.C. in June. Roxie Jefferson, the doting grandmother of Jeziah and Chase, is the mother of both their slain fathers. And decades ago, when her sons were toddlers themselves, both their fathers were also fatally shot.
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