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Trauma of violence reverberates among youth

Fun-loving Sam Pollard Jr. won friends in his Jackson community but he had serious dreams of owning his own home.

Those dreams ended abruptly Feb. 25, 2021, when a close friend shot the 32-year-old dead on North Prentiss Street in west Jackson, leaving Pollard’s three children – two girls and a boy – to bear the trauma of violence that has scarred so many youth in Mississippi’s capital city.

Neighborhood official: ‘There’s something wrong when Jackson’s murder rate is higher than Atlanta’

Hours after graduating from Murrah High School, Kennedy Hobbs visited the cemetery where her boyfriend was buried, placing her sash across his grave and snapping a picture for Instagram, writing, “For u baby.”