Jordan One Year Later: What's Different, What's the Same

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• Tim Dolan
• Don Samuels
• Natalie Johnson Lee
• Police
• Gang Violence

July 27, 2003: Three people are shot and wounded on a Sunday afternoon in the Jordan neighborhood after multiple shots are fired in the 2600 block of Humboldt Avenue North.

July 29, 2003: 19-month-old Deasha Hazley is shot through the living room window of her family's home; she remains critically wounded. Sensing a Tyesha Edwards-like crisis, council member Samuels and Mayor Rybak convince Governor Tim Pawlenty three days later to allow 12 state troopers and helicopters to provide additional patrol support.