NPR Series On Gun Deaths: The Tragedy Of Charles Foster Jr.

Charles Foster Jr. was shot and killed in a nightclub on Jan. 1, 2013. 
The first in his family to attend college, he was just a few months shy of graduation. 
Courtesy of the Foster family
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Among Thousands Of Gun Deaths, Only One Charles Foster Jr.

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Charles Foster Jr., 24, died on New Year's Day in Columbus, Ga., just one of tens of thousands of Americans who will be killed by a firearm this year. While mass shootings like the one in Newtown, Conn., attract a frenzy of media coverage, most gun homicides, like Foster's, garner little news attention.