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Mar. 16, 2021, 11:00 a.m.
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Jamal Johnson’s granddaughter was 17 when she was shot in the leg. He was out of town.
“I came home and saw her laid up in bed,” Johnson recalled on a cold March evening, five years later. “I remember looking at her and just not believing this — because it happens to everybody else. It doesn’t happen to you.”