31 August 2012
Rochester, New York, USA
The funeral of Max King (15), who was shot in the head in August. His was the 25th murder in Rochester since the beginning of 2012.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.
