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   The Brief   
   The average age of juvenile shooting victims in Minneapolis this year is now   
   less than 15 years old.   
   33 young people were shot through the first nine months of 2024, according to   
   police data.   
   The mother of one child told FOX 9 her son was shot twice in separate   
   incidents before the age of 14.   
   Editor’s Note: This story was updated after the Minneapolis Police   
   Department provided new data on the age of juvenile shooting victims.   
   What they’re saying   
      
   MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - "This is an urgent, urgent, urgent problem. I cannot   
   emphasize that enough," said Minneapolis Police Department Chief Brian   
   O’Hara.   
      
   The numbers   
   FOX 9 obtained police data for shooting victims who are under the age of 18.   
      
   It is the lowest average age for young victims since the pandemic year of 2021   
   when a handful of toddlers were struck by bullets. The same year, three young   
   children – Trinity Ottoson-Smith, Aniya Allen and Ladavionne Garrett, Jr.   
   – became the    
   innocent faces of tragic gun violence.   
      
   "That is overall what is different. They are engaging in crime and in   
   behaviors that are dangerous and that harm not only the community, but also   
   harms themselves," explained O’Hara. "It definitely feels like they have no   
   respect for their own lives,    
   let alone the lives of other people."   
      
   August shooting   
   The chief points to an August shooting of four children, 13 and under, driving   
   around in a stolen Kia. The department believes the automatic gunfire was   
   likely unloaded by someone just as young.   
      
   He blames a lot of what is going on right now on a dangerous mix of stolen   
   cars, social media and too many easily available guns with high-capacity   
   modifications.   
      
   Desperate mother   
   Cecelia Rice says her teen son has a history of running around Minneapolis   
   with guns and ripping off cars. He was inside a stolen Kia that crashed into a   
   bus shelter last year while fleeing police, where seven people were injured.   
   He was also shot twice    
   in a six-month span before turning 14 years old.   
      
   "It is becoming so dangerous, you know, that it's scary," said Rice. "It's   
   like anything can happen. Someone can shoot him and or whatever the case is,   
   or he could shoot somebody else."   
      
   Rice worries her son won’t live to see his 18th birthday, saying, "It's   
   becoming so dangerous, that it is scary. I am more terrified of these kids   
   than anything."   
      
   https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-police-say-shooting-victim   
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