How Gun Violence Is Impacting Mental Health Of Philadelphia's Youth

By Natasha Brown, CBS Philadelphia

February 28, 2023

In a city with near daily gun violence, the sound of police sirens and the roar of emergency vehicles often become a part of life in some high-crime areas, leaving the ear-piercing noise nearly ignored.

For those young people who are becoming more of the victims of gun violence, their trauma seeps through and is ever-present.

At the height of the pandemic, Philadelphia saw a record homicide rate with more than 500 victims -- 38 were teenagers, 13-18 years old and the majority of them Black.

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