Two days after the shooting death of 16-year-old Deberianah Begley, neighbors living in the area began talking about a possible solution to the ongoing gun violence.
Terry Key, who grew up in Nashville and now operates the Edgehill Bike Club, a non-profit that loans bicycles to kids, says the key is in volunteers who grew up in crime-impacted neighborhoods coming back to teach kids about possibilities.
“It’s going to take real people that grew up in these neighborhoods to come back out, back in their neighborhood, and tell their life story, how they changed around,” Key said. “They’ve got to be the inspiration to other kids.”
“There's too much killing, and too many gangsters, I don’t like that stuff,” said Treshaun Glenn, a boy who is growing up in an area where there was a shooting less than two months ago. “I want to be a doctor when I grow up, that's why I try so hard in school to get A's.”
One day, Key says, he hopes these kids will chase their dreams all the way to reality.
