senseless violence

A mass shooting killed four people and wounded seventeen others in a popular nightlife area in Birmingham, Alabama, with many of the victims caught in the crossfire, police said Sunday

The first weekend of summer brought a tragic yet familiar pattern for American cities wracked by gun violence as mass shootings left dozens dead or wounded at a party in Alabama, an entertainment district in Ohio, and a grocery in Arkansas

In this edition of StoryCorps, colleagues Jasmine Trotter and Krystal Lockett talk about the issues of senseless violence in the city of Mobile and hope to initiate a different type of approach to make their community safer for the youth.