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Cass Lake community struggles with increase in violence
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Few people have been as personally affected by violence as Leech Lake tribal member Ernestine Morgan-Johnson. Johnson's son is serving a 27-year prison sentence for killing her ex-husband and stabbing two other people. Morgan-Johnson's sister is in prison, too, for killing the sister's boyfriend. And just a few weeks ago, Morgan-Johnson's brother-in-law was stabbed to death by a neighbor. Morgan-Johnson says the community's grief can't be put into words. (MPR Photo/Tom Robertson)

Few people have been as personally affected by violence as Leech Lake tribal member Ernestine Morgan-Johnson. Johnson's son is serving a 27-year prison sentence for killing her ex-husband and stabbing two other people. Morgan-Johnson's sister is in prison, too, for killing the sister's boyfriend. And just a few weeks ago, Morgan-Johnson's brother-in-law was stabbed to death by a neighbor. Morgan-Johnson says the community's grief can't be put into words.

(MPR Photo/Tom Robertson)
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