Studies show widespread effects of shootings beyond victims, survivors

Something inside Sharifa Spears broke after her cousin, Ontario Bradley, was shot and killed in May inside an apartment in Akron's Goodyear Heights. Not only did she lose one of her favorite cousins, but his manner of death reopened old wounds Spears has repeatedly tried to heal over.

In 2022, another cousin, Latajah Leatherwood, was shot and declared brain dead .