INDIANAPOLIS — While some youth were running wild late at night in the streets of downtown Indianapolis this summer, fighting and shooting and killing each other, the campers of Young Men Inc. were home reflecting on lessons learned and preparing for the week ahead in Reverend Malachi Walker’s church basement.

On Sunday, Young Men Inc. held its end-of-summer awards and recognition banquet at the JTV Hill Center on the east side and honored 62 campers and their families for a successful summer that saw only a couple dropouts and, more importantly, no deaths and no arrests of any of Walker’s young campers.

Hundreds filled tables on the gymnasium floor and were served lunch while awaiting awards as campers who graduated returned to show their appreciation for everything they learned from th

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