A National Conversation on How We Can Prevent Gun Deaths and Injuries
My name is Glenda O’Neill and I am the mother of Timothy Darin Pruett. On March 1, 1985, my son was placed in my arms for the first time, just minutes after he took his first breath. He was so precious, his face so flawless, his skin so soft and I whispered I love you [...]
My brother, Jimmy, a lieutenant in the Cranston Fire Department, was shot in the back by his next door neighbor (a former cop) with a semi-automatic weapon while running for his life at his son’s 9th outdoor birthday party. A tennis ball the kids were playing with accidentally hit the neighbor’s car, an argument ensued, [...]
May 5th 2009: my 13-year-old son, Draysean, was shot in his head. It was at the end of the school year, right before graduation, and my son and some friends took it upon themselves to have a Jr. High School “ditch day”. So my son was sitting with a group of Jr. High School kids [...]
On December 12, 1996, my firstborn and precious son, Ronald Walker, II, was murdered in cold blood at the tender age of 15. An exceptional basketball player with a bright future, Ronald was killed because of mistaken identity. He was shot point blank in the forehead and once through the ear. After one year and [...]
Jennifer LeAnne Balber – 12/2/1973 – 11/10/1994 A SoCal Gas Co Meter Maid who was fatally shot in the line of service. Jen was a 20 year old innocent victim of a senseless drive-by shooting.
To a man unafraid to be himself regardless of warnings to “hide” himself from a world at the time who was afraid of “people like him”! Thank you Harvey Milk for being yourself and showing others in a time where it “wasn’t okay to be gay”, that it was okay to be yourself! RIP We still miss you, but your unending spirit lives even today!