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News stories can seldom be worse than the killing of Thomas Sonnenberg, the man who answered the door in his north Minneapolis neighborhood when Devon Parker was allegedly banging on it, saying someone was going to kill him if Sonnenberg didn't help.

Sonnenberg opened the door and moments later was shot to death.

"I begged him to move," his daughter told

, "but he was trapped by his mortgage, and he felt obligated to stay."

His is the latest story of violence in north Minneapolis, where violence has led people to give up on it, or at least think about it. It's not a problem unique to Minneapolis, of course. The "inner cities" have been centers of violence for decades.

It may not be hyperbole when people refer to these areas as being "like war zones."

 reports today that a study shows civilian post-traumatic stress disorder is as high in some cities as it has been in actual war zones.

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Is violence in north Minneapolis creating post-traumatic stress disorder?

Researchers: Urban crime may be causing war zone-level stress

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