The latest article went on to tell some statistics about how gun violence was on the rise, the political debate on the topic, and so on and so forth--pretty standard boilerplate stuff.
What might catch someone's eye at XU, however, was a paragraph towards the end that attempted to put a human face on the statistics.
...just last week in Worchester, Massachusetts, eight-year old Will Stanton was killed in a drive-by shooting, with guns legally purchased...
The article contained a photograph which looked an awful lot like a younger version of the Will Stanton they knew, minus the green hair.
