Young and under the gun: Trials of growing up on Dade’s mean streets [MiamiHerald.com]

Samantha Sangenito 3/8/164:00 AM

Inner city kids can’t escape it.

Days after the crossfire death of young King Carter in Northwest Miami-Dade sparked marches and outrage, two 15-year-olds debated how police and emergency crews had handled another recent random killing.

This one, a man shot while riding his bike near a corner store, went largely unnoticed outside their own Liberty City neighborhood. But it stuck in the mind of Anthony Sutton, who wondered why police didn’t cover the shirtless corpse. His friend Kiandra Carter insisted officers had tried but strong winds blew off the tarp.

The two Northwestern Senior students went back and forth while sitting in a brightly painted community center in their public housing complex, matter-of-factly debating details almost like it was a disputed foul call at a Heat game.

[For more of this story, written by Christina Veiga and Carli Teproff, go to http://www.miamiherald.com/new...7.html#storylink=cpy]

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