DECATUR â One of the things that attracts Rose Cobb to Shemilah s Outreach Center is the dance team.
âWe dance, we get our school work done, we interact with each other,â said Rose, a sophomore at MacArthur High School. âWe get involved with the community. We ve got a summer program that s coming up where we plant flowers and stuff like that. It s a Decatur group gathering, just getting stuff done.â
Shemuel Sanders lost his daughter, Shemilah, to gun violence in June, when she was with a group near the Garfield overpass. Her group and another group got into a confrontation and as she was running away, she was shot in the back of the neck. Paul M. Folks, 41, is charged with her death and awaiting trial. He has pleaded not guilty and is due for a pretrial hearing on Jan. 25.