Guns haunted two friends’ childhoods. Now they navigate a world awash in them.
Brandon Avant-Jones stands outside his home on Oct. 15, 2024. “All I can remember is gunshots,” Avant-Jones said about LeMoyne Gardens. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Gun violence shaped their lives as kids, and gun-related charges sent them to prison. Here’s where they land on gun restrictions.
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Laura Testino is an enterprise reporter on The Daily Memphian’s metro team who writes most often about how education policies shape the lives of children and families. She regularly contributes to coverage of breaking news events and actions of the Tennessee General Assembly. Testino’s journalism career in Memphis began six years ago at The Commercial Appeal, where she began chronicling learning disruptions associated with the pandemic, and continued with Chalkbeat, where she dug into education administration in Memphis. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Times-Picayune, The Tuscaloosa News and USA Today.
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