Seventeen people under the age of 18 have been shot in Cincinnati this year, according to data from the Cincinnati Police Department.
That amount of youth shootings, accrued so far since the first of the year, has community and city leaders alarmed.
“Given the reality of what we’ve been seeing for the last 6 months we are really on course to really have a record a year of youth shootings,” said Pastor Ennis Tait.
Tait has been an advocate for gun violence prevention for over a decade.
For the past 18 months, he’s been working with a group of teen boys who want to steer clear of the violence.