LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A vicious cycle is playing out in Louisville time and time again — young people dead in the streets or charged in the city’s most shocking crimes.
The numbers tell the tale. According to city data, 93 juveniles have been killed and 400 others were shot and survived since January 2020.
This week, WDRB is looking beyond the bullets, hosting a roundtable discussion on youth violence with those impacted by it, involved in it and working to stop it. Among the participants is Rolanda Hamilton, a woman whose family has lived through the heartbreak at the center of Louisville’s crisis.
“It’s shock, it’s anger, it’s frustration, it’s sadness,” Hamilton said, recalling the sentencing of 16-year-old Brad Watkins, who killed her 13-year-old brother, Daviawn Blackmon. “Twenty-three years is not enough for taking a life. It’s not enough.”…