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They fear they could be next, at a moments notice, just walking down the street.
“I would say it s been really hard to walk into the school and just be like in the area cause like who s going to go next, junior Brittany Brown said.
We ll hear about the pain from a mom who’s been there and said it’s sad to see the place she calls home lose more teenagers to gun violence.
“My heart breaks to know another child as lost their life to gun violence,” Zenobia Dobson said.
In an attempt to take back their streets, community leaders are speaking up on a gang problem. They said things are getting increasingly worse.
Leonard Tall Snow has a new afternoon routine. For the past two weeks, he has driven to Austin-East Magnet High School to walk the streets during school dismissal.
He looks for cars going too slow and cars going too fast. His main goal? Ensure his daughter s classmates feel safe getting home after four Austin-East students recently died due to gun violence.
None of the students were shot on school property but the killings led to city and school officials to ramp up security at Austin-East and in the neighborhood.
Snow walks the streets to help make the community feel more tight-knit. He said he grew up in a neighborhood with a village mentality. Everyone knew him. He joked that if he wanted to skip school, he had to go to the other side of town so he and his friends didn t get caught.