MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Carnell Vann Jr., trims a fade on an early morning client at his barber shop in the northern neighborhood of Frayser. As he sprays a can of hairspray for the finishing touches, he remembers his younger sister Marlanda.

"She was a lovable person. She just liked to love on people," he says with a smile.

Marlanda was buried this past weekend, after someone shot into her car while she was driving last month. Vann says the bullet went in near one ear and out the other side. She was 47.

Vann says violence, particularly gun violence, happens almost daily in this neighborhood. Memphis has one of the highest violent crime rates in the country, according to FBI data – and although those numbers have been declining recently, Vann says it hasn't felt that way.

"They try to come up

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