Last month, a disagreement on a residential street in Muskegon turned into a massive gun battle. Six men were armed. Dozens of shots sprayed in all directions. At the house directly behind the gunfight, three children played on a porch. And one woman ran into the line of fire to try to save them. Today we begin a three-part series about the incident, and look at how the dramatic rise of gun crimes in Muskegon is putting more kids at risk. Below is an excerpt of the first story in our series. To hear the full story, visit our State of Opportunity page . The series begins with what happened on Monroe Ave. on the evening of July 9 th . It wasn’t quite yet dinnertime. Ten year old Brooklyn Ridge was walking her dog Scruffy up to the front porch of a white wooden house on Monroe. Her friends Cameron and Kayden were there. Her brother was inside. Behind her in the street, a group of men were fighting. The fight got worse. "They started off as punching and screaming," Ridge says. "Then it
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