LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — After two acts of violence near Tates Creek schools this month, including a deadly shooting, community activists quickly mobilized to respond. ONE Lexington launched the "Safe Passage for Centre Parkway Action Plan," calling for everyone to work together to make Centre Parkway safer.

Part of that effort reached into a Lexington classroom, where an eighth-grader and his civics teacher are doing their part to address gun violence.

In a folder filled with class notes, 14-year-old Kamari Goree shared with LEX 18 what he's learned this semester — gun violence is hitting too close to home.

"It just keeps rising and rising, and I feel like the community isn't trying to stop it as well as they should be," Goree said.

It's a shock for the eighth-grader, who's been st

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