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Gun violence leads community groups to take bolder action

A memorial for Christopher Roberts Jr., who was killed in a 2020 shooting in the parking lot of a Safeway store in Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood, is shown Tuesday, July 12, 2022 near where the shooting took place. The space is now where a community group holds weekly gatherings to provide food, referrals to services and "healing spaces" for people affected by violence, work that falls under the umbrella of strategies known as community violence intervention, an approach backed by the Biden administration and donations from several major philanthropic foundations, which tries to stop local conflicts from escalating. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Marty Jackson, director of the SE Network, a community group whose work includes increasing the safety of community gathering places, poses for a photo, Tuesday, July 12, 2022, in the parking lot of a Safeway store in Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood, where her group holds weekly gatherings to provide food, referrals to services and "healing spaces" for people affected by violence. The work of Jackson's group falls under the umbrella of strategies known as community violence intervention, an approach backed by the Biden administration and donations from several major philanthropic foundations, which tries to stop local conflicts from escalating. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Dominique Davis, founder of Community Passageways, an organization that seeks to prevent community violence, poses for a photo, Tuesday, July 12, 2022 on Pacific Highway South, in Kent, Wash., south of Seattle, a roadway that Davis says has had multiple problems with shootings and other crimes for many years. The work of Davis' group falls under the umbrella of strategies known as community violence intervention, an approach backed by the Biden administration and donations from several major philanthropic foundations, which tries to stop local conflicts from escalating. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)