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Earlier this year, the slaying of Nipsey Hussle, the rapper and Crenshaw neighborhood champion, came as a harsh reminder that although crime has declined in the city in recent decades, gun violence is still a daily reality for many Angelenos.

Sarah Robinson said she was among those who mourned Hussle’s loss. She graduated from Washington Preparatory High School in South Los Angeles this month, and said she saw him as a role model in the community.

But it was the death of her cousin, who was gunned down last year leaving a party, that served as her clearest call to action.

“He was just an innocent bystander,” she said. “That’s family — seeing stuff like that, it hurts.”

Ms. Robinson was part of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Youth Council to End Gun Violence. She worked on the group’s new campaign, Louder Than Guns, which aims to get more young people involved in efforts to curb shootings.