Yearbook for young victims of gun violence humanizes startling stats

[SecularMotion]

Kedrick was accidentally shot and killed while attending a graduation party in Queens just a month shy of finishing high school and earning an academic scholarship to St. John’s University where was planning to study law.

Although the teen never got to graduate, the nonprofit New Yorkers Against Gun Violence this year is giving Kedrick the chance to have a yearbook signed — and hopefully bring some change.

“It doesn’t matter where you live anymore, anyone can join this club and no one wants to belong to it,” Johnson said. “I don’t think that any parent has to suffer and bury our children. Our children have to bury us.”

The New York teen is just one of 11 US students — including one Sandy Hook victim — that are featured in a posthumous yearbook created for victims of gun violence from across the country.

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