First and foremost, REST IN PEACE to everyone that has passed this summer. My condolences go out to anyone who is missing someone right now. I wish I could bear your pain for you if only for a moment. (If you're reading this...know that you are all in my prayers and thoughts. I'm with you, I PROMISE!).

A 13-year-old boy was fatally shot in front of an apartment building in Harlem on Friday night, the police said.
The boy, Scotty Scott, was struck once in the chest around 7:30 p.m. near 108 West 144th Street, just west of Malcolm X Boulevard. He was declared dead at Harlem Hospital Center.
Two more young men were wounded in the same shooting; an 18-year-old was hit in the leg and a 16-year-old suffered a grazing wound to the neck, the police said.



A churchgoing teenager who fretted about violence in his troubled Harlem neighborhood was struck and killed by a stray bullet yesterday as he walked with friends near his home, police said.
Nathan Allsbrook, 15, was shot at about 2:30 a.m. as he walked home with several friends at the corner of 127th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard.
Police sources said the bullet hit him in the shoulder and traveled into his heart. He was pronounced dead about 15 minutes later.

A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot after a house party on the upper West Side early Saturday - prompting his devastated mother to plead with cops to get illegal guns off the streets.
Maurice McIver, his mother's only child, was shot in the groin as he left a friend's home, police said.
The high school sophomore lost a significant amount of blood before he was rushed to the emergency room of St. Luke's Hospital and died as his mom kept vigil in the waiting room.
"These kids are out there killing each other, and it doesn't make any sense," Maurice's mom, Janet Gaston, said.