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Hundreds March For Peace To Honor Slain Boston Youth

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Hundreds of Boston residents attended a peace march Tuesday night in Dorchester to honor young people who have died recently on neighborhood streets, including a 16-year-old boy police say was shot and killed last week by two other teens.

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Correction: An earlier iteration of this post incorrectly reported that police said two people were shot Tuesday night, after the march. Three people were shot in the incident at Dorchester's Lawrence Avenue. We regret the error.

This article was originally published on June 17, 2015.

This segment aired on June 17, 2015.

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