20140905 - Week in Photos August 31 to September 6, 2014

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Danielle Guerra - dguerra@shawmedia.com
Cathi McDannel stands in the former room of her son David Joshua Edwin Pierce, known to friends and family as Josh, in her Holiday Hills home in McHenry County. Pierce was found on April 30 by authorities dead in DeKalb of a heroin overdose. Since his death, McDannel has helped start the McHenry County Heroin Awareness Initiative and manages the Facebook page, "I am Josh P."