ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Five of the people shot in Rochester this weekend are teenagers, and another victim is 12 years old.
Chief Investigative Reporter Berkeley Brean set out to learn how being shot affects their lives. In cases where people are shot but survive, police have been saying they have “life-altering injuries” and teenagers hit by bullets are more likely to fire bullets when they get older.
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“It puts us in a state of fear,” Morris said.
Justin Morris created Untrapped Ministries. He just finished a bike ride on the canal to Albany to bring attention to gun violence.
“We’ve got half a dozen who were shot here. What does that do to a young person?” Berkeley asked Morris.
“It puts them on offense,” Morris said.
“It creates an environment where young people think they have to carry guns,” Morris said. “Their lingo now, where we used to say ‘stay safe’, they don’t say stay safe in their greetings anymore. They say ‘stay dangerous.'”
“When you hear them say that, how do you respond to that?” Berkeley asked.
“I think that’s their reality,” Morris said.
A domino effect
In the last five years, the number of people 19 and under shot in Rochester is 290.
“A gunshot wound is a life-changing injury,” Chief David Smith said. “Even if you recover physically, there are mental repercussions.”
“I would also add there are studies that show that individuals who suffer that kind of violence in that kind of environment do become more prone to engaging in that type of violent behavior in the future,” Monroe County District Attorney Brian Green said.
One study from Every Town for Gun Safety says an average of 60 children and teenagers are shot in this country every day. It says they are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol, be depressed and resort to violence. everytownresearch.org/report/the-impact-of-gun-violence-on-children-and-teens/
The study also says if there was less gun violence, they would play outside more. Despite what happened this weekend, Rochester is seeing historic drops in gun violence.
This year in comparison
Ten years ago, Rochester had 103 people shot by this time of the year. Two years ago it was 106, and last year it was 85. The city is at 58 right now, and there hasn’t been a single murder with a gun.
There have only been five murders in Rochester this year. That’s almost as many as the suburbs have had.
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