A National Conversation on How We Can Prevent Gun Deaths and Injuries
Shayla was gunned down on August 6, 2010 at the age of three beside her five-year-old brother, her mother and her aunt. This senseless crime has left a hole in my heart that could never be filled. Shay-Shay, your God mother will always love you, until we meet again.
SHAY-SHAY MY PLAYMATE
Shay-Shay my playmate
Come out and play with me
Climb up my apple tree and
Take a bite with me
Slide down my rainbow
Into my pot of gold
We’ll sing our A, B, C’s
And learn our 1, 2, 3’s
My father died at 49. He never knew six of his seven grandchildren. He never knew his eldest child completed four college degrees and became an ordained minister. He never knew he had four great-grandchildren. So much he never knew when he was shot and killed two days after his 49th birthday. He never visited [...]
On May 13, 1972, my 20 year old brother Michael was fatally shot following a robbery on a CTA”el” train on the way home from Loyola University. This Mother’s Day weekend, my family observed the 40th anniversary of his death. When I ask my students of Oakton Community College in Chicago how many of them know [...]
I always knew a gun would alter my life. I have no idea how I knew, but I did. One of the most vivid dreams I ever had was when I was just 18 or 19 years old. I saw myself, clearly older, sitting in a chair, rocking a child, and I was staring into [...]
Benefit for Krystal Hethcoat, Andre Vasquez and Reyna Vasquez. When: Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 4:00pm until Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 2:00am Where: Marlins Bar and Grill, 7236 39th street, Lyons, Illinois Description On October 18th, Krystal Hethcoat and her 2 children, Andre and Reyna, were the victims of a home invasion. Two masked [...]
Starkesia Reed was a 14 year old Honor student in the Chicago Public Schools with her whole life ahead of her. She was NOT in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was waiting for her school bus one morning, eating an orange inside her own living room, looking out the window for her [...]
–My Heart Mourns with You.
REST IN PEACE MAMA YOU ARE A BEAUTY…FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS…