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Only 19, this young man in the Dane County Jail still bears the scars of three gunshot wounds he received in April 2017.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Tutankhamun “Coach” Assad helps youth like Tony Maldonodo, 11, left, Raheem Carter, 11, and Caleb Watkins, 13, stay engaged in positive activities in the Meadowood neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Cortez Dobson, 18, who grew up on Madison's streets and was incarcerated for felony possession of a weapon, said he never viewed the life as anything other than ordinary. He is on parole and working toward a diploma at Operation Fresh Start.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Madison Police captured this image from a then-15 year old last year who is a suspect in an armed robbery where shots were fired and someone was hit. A detective believes the posting was unrelated to the robbery, but rather to brag about being armed or having access to a weapon.
MADISON POLICE DEPARTMENT
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‘You don't see it because you're so in it. What you think is violence, I think is normal.’
-- Cortez Dobson, 18
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