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Caption: Clementine Barfield was like millions of other American parents. Hard working. Filled with love for her children. Then her teenage son was gunned down, and Clementine Barfield became a lot more than "Just a mother." John Peoples, a Baptist minister and city council member, prays with SOSAD members Vera Rucker, right, and Thea Todd, whose nephew killed Ms. Rucker's daughter, Melody.