Zarriel Trotter young teen that spoke out on his fear of violence shot in the back

He's the last boy that speaks in the video.
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Chicago teen Zarriel Trotter, advocate against violence, shot in the back

Zarriel Trotter joined other boys in a sobering public-service announcement last year to voice fear, hopelessness and sadness about gun violence on the streets of Chicago.

"I don't want to live around my community where I've got to keep on hearing and hearing people keep on getting shot, people keep on getting killed," Zarriel said in the video, which closes with the message: "The loss of a black boy is a loss for America."

On Friday, the 13-year-old was shot in the lower back by a stray bullet fired during a heated argument on a street several blocks from his home, according to the principal of his school and the co-CEO of the firm that produced the video.

"It's really heartbreaking to hear one of your students has been hurt in this way," said Elizabeth Jamison-Dunn, principal at Catalyst Circle Rock Charter School, where Zarriel is a seventh-grader.

It was the kind of shooting Zarriel said in the video he was growing tired of hearing about in his community.

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A Chicago Woman Wants You to See The Faces of Her 23 Loved Ones Killed by Gun Violence

The first time I meet Camiella Williams, she pulls out her smartphone and calls up a Facebook album she created called "Lost but not forgotten." It's filled with pictures of mostly young African-American men, and serves as a kind of memorial wall to some of the people she's known who have been gunned down on the streets of Chicago.

"Martece," she says, pausing at a photo of a young man in a neon green shirt and a baseball cap. "He got killed on 81st and Ashland, in the dollar store." The caption on the photo notes that Martece's little sister was killed six months later, in 2008. Williams, 28, has lost 23 close friends and relatives to gun violence in the past 12 years.

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