Community activists say months of school closures could lead to young people falling through the cracks
Residents in north Birmingham are reeling after the killing of a 14-year-old boy on a main road during the day last Monday. The teenager is one of a number of young people to have lost their lives to knife crime this year, as police try to tackle a spate of violence in the West Midlands.
On 1 May Derlarno Samuels, 17, died of stab injuries in Smethwick, Sandwell, and there were gunshots fired at a vigil for him. Jack Barry, 19, was found stabbed to death in Hamstead, in March, and 15-year-old Keon Lincoln died after he was stabbed and shot in Handsworth, in January. A number of teenagers aged 14 and over were charged with Lincoln’s murder.
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