NORTH PHILADELPHIA - After one school loses another student to gun violence, school leaders are having important discussions and reminding students they don’t have to get involved with the wrong crowd.
And, there's an incentive to step forward.All week, students have been mourning the loss of Salaah Fleming. His picture and flowers have been left behind where he used to sit.
Police say he was shot and killed April 28."I don’t understand how the world can be so cold as to cut short a precious life," student Chelsea Kelly said.Poetry is one way students at the Mathematics, Civics and Sciences Charter School are processing the murder of their 8th grade peer."He was always really chill.
He was quiet and always seemed happy," student Sam Sawyer described Salaah.RELATED COVERAGE:Chelsea Kelly added, "It hit especially close to home because this was actually a person who I sat next to in Social Studies and who I, sometimes, would help out with his work.