S.O.S. Violence Interrupter Rudy Suggs was profiled in the New York Times on Christmas Day. We are proud of Rudy and of the entire S.O.S. team. Thank you for your continued support to make gun violence in Crown Heights a problem of the past. 


DECEMBER 25, 2012, 11:00 AM

A Onetime Drug Dealer, Now Working to Combat a Plague of Gun Violence

By VIVIAN YEE
Rudy Suggs, 48, has already lived one life, and now he is on his second. The first was as a gun-toting drug dealer in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a few blocks from where he grew up. The second is as an anti-gun-violence activist, working the same streets he used to roam late into the night to prevent gunshots before they happen. 
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