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Amari Brown stood at a little over 4 feet when he collapsed to the ground on the Fourth of July in 2015.
The boy, 7, had gone out with his father that evening to watch fireworks, prosecutors said, and was outside when bullets came flying down the block.
Just over 50 pounds, he cried out as he fell, Assistant State’s Attorney Emily Stevens said.
“He cried out like any child would,” she said. “He cried out, ‘Daddy.’”
Amari’s slaying on the summer holiday – which saw spasms of violence that year – spurred national news coverage and calls for change, especially when followed, just months later, by the targeted killing of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee.
Nearly nine years later, two men charged with Amari’s killing are standing trial at the Leighton Criminal Court Building before two separate juries.
Read the full story from the Tribune’s Madeline Buckley.
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