?I hate to say it?s racial, but I feel that way?

When Gloria Curtis got the news that her son, Cameron, 28, had been shot to death while walking near his South Baltimore home in October 2004, she had an emotional breakdown. She?s never really recovered.

“I think about my son every hour of every day,” says Curtis, a teacher at Bentalou Elementary School. “I literally went into shock. I couldn?t work for four months.