in 2003, diane lattiker started kids off the block in her own neighborhood. >> right now we are on the south side of chicago. we are in what people call the wild 100. >> that's because chicago averages 1,800 shootings per year. last year, chicago had the second highest number of murders, with 458. behind new york city with 471. >> a 13-year-old named robert freemen was shot 22 times two fwlokz here. we heard part of the shots coming out of the center. ten seconds, police, ambulance rolling down the block. everybody running, what's going on? >> the shooting had a devastating impact on the kids in the community. >> it concerned me when i saw your faces. he was shot 22 times, and you all looked really concerned. >> that scared me. i'm not going to say i loved it, it scared me. >> i'm concerned for my nephew. >> that boy was 13, i got a nephew that's 12. >> in 2007, near the center, diane erected a shrine to memorialize the kids that died too soon. >> i was at home depot one day and i saw these stones for the yard. it looked like little head stones, i said i want to do something really lik