2 Friends Had No Idea A Shooting Linked Their Teen Lives
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Tashante McCoy-Ham and Deion Short learned he'd been part of a 1994 shooting that wounded her, revealing how commonplace gun violence had become in their...
This story was reported by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Tashante McCoy-Ham was scheduled to read a personal essay in front of her college English class, so she wanted to practice in front of an audience. Her fiance was in her kitchen cooking, while his best friend Deion Short sat at the kitchen table nearby. The professor had asked the class to write about a childhood incident that changed them. McCoy-Ham, who had returned to college in her early 30s, chose the night she and three other people were shot after a high school dance in 1994, when she was 15. As she began reading the essay aloud, her fiance turned away from the stove and looked at Short. The men laughed uncomfortably.
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