Boy’s ejection from SF school illustrates struggles in violence prevention
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Adithya Sambamurthy/The Bay Citizen When Tori was 9, a shooting near his home in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood left a random bullet lodged permanently in his abdomen.
An 11-year-old boy in San Francisco made headlines early last year when a shooting near his Western Addition home left a random bullet lodged permanently in his abdomen. Nerve damage, a ruptured bladder and chronic pain kept him out of school for more than four months.For a brief moment after the shooting, the boy, who was 9 at the time, became the city’s latest example of how