A challenge for investigators handling cases of innocent shooting victims is offering an explanation to families, in some cases when a motive for the shooting is undetermined, he said. He added that crossfire “is part of the gun violence narrative we don’t hear enough about.”Shootings account for over half of city homicides. He was killed when a bullet tore through his house as he was putting his young son to bed in 2003. It’s an innocent man being gunned down walking to his car, going to see his fiancée,” a homicide investigator told reporters Monday. She has met with mothers who have lost sons to gun violence, with one woman who has to make the daily walk past the same corridor in her social housing unit where her son was killed.

Source: thestar March 24, 2018 03:05 UTC