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New Haven organization assists families touched by violence
By Shahid Abdul-Karim
NEW HAVEN >> For Lauren Pittman, a 10 p.m. knock at her mother’s door led to her family rushing to the hospital to find her brother fighting for his life.
Pittman, 29, said her brother left the house riding his bicycle on Dixwell Avenue, where he was gunned downed last December.
Christopher Fain, 19, was shot once. He was pronounced dead at the St. Raphael campus of Yale-New Haven Hospital two days later.
Pittman said a piece of her slipped away when she stood at his bedside and watched her brother take his last breath in the early morning hours that day.
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NEW HAVEN >> For Lauren Pittman, a 10 p.m. knock at her mother’s door led to her family rushing to the hospital to find her brother fighting for his life.
Pittman, 29, said her brother left the house riding his bicycle on Dixwell Avenue, where he was gunned downed last December.
Christopher Fain, 19, was shot once. He was pronounced dead at the St. Raphael campus of Yale-New Haven Hospital two days later.
Pittman said a piece of her slipped away when she stood at his bedside and watched her brother take his last breath in the early morning hours that day.
Read more here.
Labels: Bereavement Care Network, homicide victims
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