Teen gets prison for killing 15-year-old Syracuse girl: ‘It shocked the whole community’

Syracuse, N.Y. — The uncle of a young girl killed in Syracuse told the court his family worked hard to make sure they all stayed away from guns and the violence that comes with them.

“My grandfather was so dedicated to making sure we stayed away from guns growing up that we weren’t even allowed to have a water gun fight in our family as kids,” prosecutor Rob Moran read in a letter from Sean Herndon.

It’s why the death of Herndon’s niece, Alexcia “Lexi” Lynch, 15, is still so painful for the family. Lynch was fatally shot last summer…

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