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<text id=92TT2463>
<title>
Nov. 02, 1992: A Brief Life in the Killing Zone
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Nov. 02, 1992 Bill Clinton's Long March
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 22
SOCIETY
A Brief Life in the Killing Zone
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<p>A young Chicago boy's murder prompts an antigun crackdown
</p>
<p> Though only 7, Dantrell Davis had alresdy witnessed more fire
fights than most U.S. soldiers. Since March, two of his
classmates at Jenner Elementary School in Chicago's notorious
Cabrini-Green housing project had been slain, and Dantrell was
well experienced in running for cover at the first sound of
gunfire. But he never heard the shot that killed him on Oct. 13,
when a sniper opened fire from a 10th-floor window as Dantrell
walked to school with his mother. The rest of Chicago did, and
Dantrell's death sparked yet another agonizing debate over how
to stop the inner-city slaughter.
</p>
<p> Chicago Housing Authority chairman Vincent Lane called for
the National Guard to be deployed at Cabrini-Green. Mayor
Richard Daley instead ordered a massive police sweep of the
70-acre, 78-building project, which houses 7,000 residents a few
blocks from the city's swankest shopping district. At a press
conference last Monday, Daley confirmed what most urban
Americans already know, saying, "We have seen a complete
breakdown of society."
</p>
<p> Criticized for a city murder rate that has already topped
790 this year, Daley also announced other measures to beef up
security at Cabrini-Green, including the use of metal detectors,
IDs for residents and secured entrances. Meanwhile, suspect
Anthony Garrett, 33, told police that he shot Dantrell by
mistake. Garrett said he was simply trying to take out a few
rival gang members when the first-grader got in the way.
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