Syracuse, N.Y. — Community activists and family members of a Syracuse teen gunned down on July 4th protested against gun violence Friday in the same block where the 17-year-old girl was fatally shot.
Karlianne Short, who had recently graduated from Henninger High School, was shot in the back near a store across from the Parkside Commons apartments in the 2000 block of East Fayette Street.
She was out to get a bottle of water that night, friends said.
On Friday, about 20 activists from Rebirth Syracuse and Should Never Use Guns chanted and held signs that condemned gun violence at the intersection of East Fayette Street and Westmoreland Avenue.
“Don’t shoot. They want to grow up,” the group chanted.
Three separate shootings played out over five hours in Syracuse Thursday night. Of the four injured, one was a man shot in the leg while he was at a memorial gathering on Carbon Street.
At the demonstration Friday, Angela Short, Karlianne’s mother, called her daughter a “good-hearted, gifted person.”
Short recalled how hard Karlianne worked to graduate. Her senior year she started staying after school and would bring back home extra class work.
Friends said Karlianne talked about going to college and possibly getting into real estate. Her mother said she also thought about becoming a lawyer.
Seeing her daughter walk the stage to get her diploma was “the second best day of my life,” Short said, “other than her being born.”
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