‘He Started Chasing Us With The Gun’

In March, The Huffington Post began talking to teens and adults throughout the U.S. about their experiences with gun violence. This is one person’s story. You can read others here.

This past spring, HuffPost met with a group of teens and young adults at Washington’s Potomac Gardens housing project on Capitol Hill. In one-on-one interviews, they discussed their own encounters with violence and the culture of guns. The threat was always there — in school, at the basketball court, at the subway stop. Here are two voices from those individual sessions.

Erica, 15, tells the story of seeing a gun for the first time and the impact that crime had on her.

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