INDIANAPOLIS — A third of deadly youth gun violence in Indianapolis can be tracked back to social media, according to a report from Chalkbeat Indiana and Axios Indianapolis .

Arika Herron , a reporter for Axios Indianapolis, said Axios and Chalkbeat Indiana requested all of the probable cause affidavits – that ended up being thousands of pages – for every gun homicide since 2018 that involved school-age children as the suspect or victim of the crime in all cases that the Marion County prosecutor brought murder charges.

Herron said they wanted to figure out what was causing the increase in youth gun crimes and see if there were any trends that they could identify. The trend they found? Social media.

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