Gun Violence and Youth Crime

Two teenagers were killed and five others wounded in a shooting after a planned fight near a Winston-Salem middle school. Police said the planned confrontation involved two juveniles who arranged to meet at Leinbach Park near Jefferson Middle School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. When the groups met multiple people exchanged gunfire, and seven people were struck, two of them teenagers who died at the scene or later at hospitals. Winston-Salem police and state investigators stressed the shooting did not happen on school grounds and the nearby Jefferson Middle School remained open and on a normal schedule.