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In the first weekend of the summer, 12 people were shot in Cleveland. On a hot Saturday night in June, chaos reigned at Edgewater Park, when 16 people sprayed nearly 40 shots that terrorized beachgoers. On July 4, a young Cleveland police officer was gunned down attempting to serve a warrant, and hours later, a 10-year-old girl was fatally shot.