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The trauma team at Oakland's Highland Hospital tends a gunshot victim.


Why a 33-cent bullet can cause a $30,000-wound...

Before dawn on Monday April 21, a single bullet fired from a handgun tore into the lower back of Juan, a young Latino man, as he walked along a downtown Oakland street. He was the victim of an apparent random shooting.

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