Ramani Preston, 10, center, and her sister Telia Guthrie, 6, left, joined their mother Tanisha Leonard, right, and Melissa Clemon, left, at the entrance to Banner Lake Park after attending a nightly vigil conducted at the corner of Date Street and Lantana Avenue, where sixteen-year-old Dewayne Bernard Mitchell III was beaten to death with a baseball bat at 2 am a week earlier. "It's easy for kids to get into trouble, but it's hard as hell for them to get out of it," said Clemon, who admitted to getting into trouble earlier in life. Both women stressed the importance of the availability of positive activities in which children can get involved as a method to keep them out of trouble.
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