Delaware Online examines why gun violence against girls and women has skyrocketed

As Roger Morgan prepares to bury his girlfriend of 25 years Monday, he can't help but think of the gun violence occurring outside his rowhome in Wilmington's East Side neighborhood. 

Nine people have been shot in about a one-block radius of his home on Kirkwood Street – arguably one of the more violent areas in Delaware's largest city this year.

More troubling is that the majority of those who were shot in this two-block area have been women. 

That's the start of a story from Delaware Online reporter Esteban Parra, who examined why there's been such a large number of women shot in 2021.

You can read his story here:

GUN VIOLENCE:Why more women are being shot in Wilmington this year, especially in this neighborhood

"This society is moving more and more in the direction of girls not being treated like princesses or with value, but rather being treated just like another guy or somebody else in the street, in the gang, in the culture," said the Rev. Derrick "Pastor D" Johnson, pastor of Wilmington’s Joshua Harvest Church.

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