By Rebecca Everett/NJ.com/September 4 2016 CAMDEN –

Deyonna Jackson, 17, said that her biggest fear when she has to walk home from Camden High School — or the 20 minutes to where the marching band practices after school — is the unwelcome attention she might get from men.

"Being a teenager, some older men talk to kids like me," Jackson said.

But she is also aware that sometimes, kids are shot just because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. An 8-year-old girl was killed by a bullet not intended for her in front of her Camden home on the evening of Aug. 24.

"I think about that sometimes when I walk," Jackson said.

She was at Camden High School Thursday to speak about the Camden City School District's decision to spend $150,000 to provide busing for high school students who live between 2 and 2.5 miles of their schools.

The district's announcement comes three months after the community group the Village hosted a 2.4-mile trek from the school to show community members and school officials how far some are walking, many of them twice a day.

To read more on the expanded busing, visit: http://www.nj.com/camden/