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1-888-CRIME-SC  By Darragh Copley - email  NEWBERRY, SC (WIS) -
Newberry police say a rise in violence can be blamed on two
gangs. Now they're looking into shootings and armed robberies in
one area in the last two weeks.  "One bullet went through my
bone," said 19-year old Dezmond Wilson, standing only a few feet
from where he was shot last week.  Wilson said he still comes to
the park with his brothers even after he was shot.  "We were
just chilling outside my house, a car had rolled by," Wilson
recounted. "I just heard a shot and when I looked down at my
foot, there was a hole in it." Just two days before, their
cousin was also shot nearby.  "My cousin he don't do nothing to
nobody, so I don't know what happened with him getting shot or
why they would shoot him," said Jamel Howse, a relative of the
victim.  Wilson didn't think his s