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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
National
Ellie Rushing and Gillian McGoldrick

Philly moms plead to state leaders for gun reform in Harrisburg, with new hope under a Democratic majority

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Tanya Clark stood quietly in the cold rain outside of Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Philadelphia on Thursday morning, tears streaming down her cheeks.

It was only 7 a.m. and yet her mind was already racing with memories of her nephew Jabarr Richards, the loving young man she raised like a son, who was fatally shot in October in Southwest Philadelphia.

She wasn’t wearing a shirt with his photo on it and didn’t write his name on a poster.

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