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Gangs common in Brentwood neighborhood

Christopher Hamilton's family is well aware of street violence. Fights and personal beefs are common at their children's schools. Gang tags dot fences in their Brentwood neighborhood.

"We always taught him to be careful because a bullet has no name on it if someone starts shooting," said one of his aunts, Enrika Morrison, 38.

The words proved tragically true at a party a block from Hamilton's...

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