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Meet Corey, 8, One Of The Kids Caught In Chicago's Crossfire

(CBS) – Eight-year-old Jamiah Barnes, the latest of Chicago's youngest victims, was shot a vigil for 14-year-old murder victim over the weekend.

2 Investigator Brad Edwards introduces us to another young shooting survivor, just now taking his first steps.

The sound of this summer was eclipsed too often by gunshots.

Chicago has "seen too many children become scared to play in their front yards," Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said recently. "Quite frankly, I'm just sick of it."

This is indeed the summer where little faces symbolized the surge.

Eight-year-old Corey Bondurant was shot on the Fourth of July; so was his 5-year-old cousin, Taniyah Williams.

A bullet went in and out of his leg. Before he went into surgery, the nurses at Comer Children's Hospital gave him a doll. A month and a half later, he took his first steps.

For now, he wears a noticeable leg brace, but he is physically mending.

He's not the only child who has had to deal with being shot.

Others include:

--6-year-old Jaylene Bermeo, shot on June 6

--Kevan Collins, 4, on June 28

--Tacarra Morgan, 6, on July 19

--Zariah Muhammed, 6, on Aug. 11

--India Tinker, 6, Aug. 15

The youngest this summer has been 3-year-old Devon Quinn, who was shot on Father's Day. He's paralyzed and has a tracheotomy.

Corey's mother has a message to the gang bangers: "If you got that much power to shoot somebody, stop shooting our kids."

Corey hopes to get his brace off by month's end, just before his 9th birthday and before he returns to school.

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