Rafiq Jamison, aged 21, was fatally shot on July 16, 2012, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His death was part of a surge in gun violence across the city that year, with firearms involved in the overwhelming majority of homicides. Rafiq was killed outside, reflecting a common pattern of street-level shootings that plagued Philadelphia. These incidents were especially concentrated in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, where systemic issues of poverty and lack of opportunity left young men pa
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