The stories that teenage brothers "Virgil" and "Phillip" tell about growing up in Compton, California, sound like war stories.
Their battle begins when they step out of their door. Virgil says he doesn't walk around at night.
"I still be shaky about walking in the daytime, 'cause nowadays people don't care out here," he explains, adding that people are shooting during the day as well as at night.
He and his brother -- who didn't want their real names used because of what they've seen and experienced -- say they've witnessed the results of that violence in terrifying detail.
"I was coming home... and this Hispanic guy had an African-American guy on his knees and he just blew his head off," Virgil recounts about an incident he witnessed when he was only 5 or 6 years old.
He didn't tell anyone what he saw, not even his mother. He was terrified.
[For more of this story, written by Sara Sidner, go to http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/...e-disabled-students/]
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