A holiday weekend of youth gun violence from Columbus to the nation

A holiday weekend of youth gun violence from Columbus to the nation

The holiday weekend’s smoke has cleared from the summer sky, but a different kind of haze lingers over cities like Columbus. It is the acrid aftermath of a celebration scarred by gunfire, a pall that hangs over communities trying to reconcile the promise of America’s birthday with the reality of its violence. On the South Side at a house party that should have been filled with the sounds of summer, the life of 17-year-old Cameron Moore was extin…