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    Slain student was a gun control advocate who believed music could 'heal the world'

    by Laura Newberry, Suhauna Hussain, Javier Panzar and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times Mar 12, 2019 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - When Alinzia Davenport recalls her godbrother as a little boy, a vivid image comes to mind: a tiny Victor McElhaney in the middle of a drum circle led by older men, keeping up with the beat on his bongos.

    "I just knew one day he was going to be a famous old man and we'd be going to his concerts," Davenport said.

    McElhaney devoted most of his life to the intersection of community and music. The 21-year-old son of Oakland Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney began playing drums before he could read. By the time he moved to Los Angeles in the fall of 2017 to study jazz at the University of Southern California, he had made his mark on Oakland as a mentor to

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