[Malveaux:] So far this year, some 20 young people under the age of 17 have been killed in Chicago, four in the past week alone. Now, lawmakers and advocates are trying to find ways to tackle the crisis. And one mother is taking drastic measures to prevent her son from becoming a statistic. Ted Rowlands reports.
[Josh Turner, Chicago Resident:] And they shot through the window.
[Ted Rowlands, Cnn Correspondent:] 14-year-old Josh Turner is talking about the time that gunfire on his street got uncomfortably close hitting his neighbor's window.
[Josh Turner:] And the bullet went right through the glass.
[Rowlands:] Street violence is a part of life on Chicago's south side, but for Josh and his mother, Marissa, it is too tough to handle.
[Marissa Turner, Mother Of Josh:] It has gotten so bad that I'm ready.
[Rowlands:] Ready, she says, to move to Rome, Georgia, where she grew up and wants Josh to grow up. This family knows first-hand the devastating effect of violence. Josh's father, Jeremiah, was murdered when Josh was 18 months old.
[Marissa Turner:] Not having his dad probably put more on me as far as protecting him, and that's all, that's all that matters.
[Rowlands:] The murder rate in Chicago is up more than 35 percent so far this year, and many of the victims are innocent and young. Last Wednesday, 7-year-old Heaven Sutton was shot standing at her front yard selling lemonade.
[Nora Green, Josh's Grandmother:] I am glad that, you know, Marissa is moving him out of this environment.
[Rowlands:] Josh's grandmother, Norah, who lives across the street, shows a photo display of Josh's father. She says the pain of losing a child is unbearable. And while she will miss Josh, she can't take the though of losing him as well.
[Green:] When I watch the news and I hear of someone else that has been killed, I just, you know, my mind goes back to the process of the initially hearing it and then after that. That after when everybody leaves you, that after. And you are left with yourself.
[Rowlands:] Josh says moving away from his friends will be difficult, but he is looking forward to living close in Georgia, living somewhere that is safe. Ted Rowlands, CNN, Chicago.
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