Rep. Anthony DeLuca, community leaders call for state legislature to mandate services for repeat juvenile gun offenders

Lisa Daniels, the founder and executive director of the Darren B. Easterling Center for Restorative Practices, said her youngest son, Darren, was fatally shot in Park Forest in July 2012 during a robbery. Her son had a criminal record and was committing a crime before he was shot, Daniels said, and because of that she has held him accountable for his actions posthumously. “Yet I firmly believe …