In 2022, York, Pennsylvania, weathered 22 homicides, a record number of slayings that gave the growing industrial city of 45,000 a higher homicide rate per capita than Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the state’s biggest cities.

One particularly brazen incident shocked officials into action. On July 6, 2022, Shaheim Carr, 27, left a house near downtown York. Four men chased Carr into a breezeway and fired nearly 100 bullets. The shots killed Carr and sprayed gunfire into nearby buildings, including into the home of the mother of York’s City Council President Edquina Washington.

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Among other incidents, the shooting prompted Washing

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