Dorchester Youth Wanted a Way Out

Deyquan Gomez was only fourteen years old when he was fatally shot February 10th while walking with his friend on the highway. He was a high school freshman attending Jeremiah E. Burke High School. Recently he had been making visits to the Dorchester Youth Collaborative and they could not help but he heartbroken for he was interested in joining an after school program to prevent non violence that was to start up next month. Community activist Emmett Folgert states his sadness by saying “You can never say it would have saved him, but it sure makes you wish it [the program] was rolling’’. Hopefully this will help speed up the process of creating a program for youths in Dorchester.

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