M.+Lee

 ** Teenage homicides **


 * My name is Melony Lee and I am going to be informing about a Sociological problem that has been having a large effect on our schools, neighborhoods, and Especially our young African American males. Chicago’s death rate for teenagers alone was 500 homicides each year from 2003 through 2007 and 2007’s number 443 was the fewest in more than 40yrs. I must ask why are our young African Americans murdering each other over nonsense? In death, 16 year-old became the lastest high-profile name on the long list of Chicagoans who have died violently. **


 * The teens brutal beating with two-by-fours was recorded September 24,2009 .The attack captured the nation’s attention and elicited a response from the White House. Derrion was violently stomped, punched and smacked with large planks of wood in a South Side brawl soon after classes ended for the afternoon at Fenger High School. The melee was between two long warring factions of Fenger Students, kids bused in from the Altgeld Gardens public housing Complex and those who live in the portion of the Roseland neighborhood around Fenger known as the “Ville”. **

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