'How many of you know a friend or relative who has been shot at?'

He's only 13 years old, but Benyamin Nunn already knows nine friends or relatives who have been shot -- three of them fatally.

The list of places he can't go for fear of violence -- the park, the neighborhood pool, the basketball court, basically anywhere off his block -- seems far longer than the list of places he can go.

"I'm angry, and I'm scared at the same time. I'm mad because we can't do certain things. I'm sad because innocent people are getting shot,'' said Benyamin, who just finished sixth grade at Sexton Elementary School in the South Side's Woodlawn neighborhood.

The urban violence that has claimed the lives of 36 Chicago Public School children since September has left a wide swath of collateral damage in its wake, a Chicago Sun-Times survey of nearly 500 CPS students found.

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