A National Conversation on How We Can Prevent Gun Deaths and Injuries
Majahne Williams, 14 years old, takes part in a candlelight vigil to highlight the need to combat gun violence. Majahne lost her mom, Natalie Williams, to domestic violence involving a gun, in December 2000. The vigil was held inside Niles Chapel in Princeton.
By Mary Iuvone/For the Times of Trenton
Frank and Judy were just married. On January 25, 1993 they were on their way to work at the CIA Headquarters in McLean, Virginia. While they stopped at a red light to turn into the main entrance, a Pakistani illegal foreign national calmly walked out of his car yielding an AK-47 assault riffle and began [...]
On July 28, 2011 my son Eric was murdered on a Brooklyn sidewalk by 3 teenagers as he was walking to the store to buy cigarettes. Eric was a loving son (my teddy bear) and wonderful brother and friend. He was a talented tattoo artist who friends loving referred to as “Beast”. Eric had a [...]
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 sister was murdered in 1991. The gunman who killed her in her own home was never apprehended. She never had the opportunity to meet her five grandchildren and they never knew the talented woman who could have taught them so much. Her younger daughter died of leukemia three years ago on the night before [...]
On October 26, 2002, Antonio E. Marquez was shot and killed as he and his pregnant wife stopped to help a homeless person on the corner of 21st and Western in Chicago. Antonio left his unborn child and eight-year-son. This tribute is for him: a tribute to who he was in life. But most importantly, [...]
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