A National Conversation on How We Can Prevent Gun Deaths and Injuries
Alma Washington, was murdered February 1989 in Los Angeles. She was sitting in her wheelchair looking out the window when a shot was fired at a boy running past her window. She was fatally struck by the bullets. Two boys were arrested; the 14 year-old juvenile was released early and other is served an unknown period of time.
Chace was loved by family, friends, and neighbors and that was expressed when I flew from NY to Gary, Indiana the morning he was shot. I arrived at the hospital and there were kids lining the walls of the hospital that reminded me of people waiting to get the hottest ticket to the biggest band. [...]
My son, Lenwood Cameron Hearon, was murdered in Chicago on September 28, 2011 by a so-called friend. The “friend” shot my baby multiple times, while sitting in my son’s car with him. My son drove his car into a wooded area, crashing it into a tree and injuring the animal who did this before Cameron [...]
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 shining star and little brother Carl McKenzie Williams was selfishly stolen from us on June 24, 2009, all because three cowards wanted to rob him and earn status in a street gang. Carl was an aspiring rap star/beat maker and was well known. He was not a gang member nor was he a problem [...]
“Seventeen years have passed but it feels just like it was yesterday when the heartless gunman took your life.” This is my sister, Carroll Ann Harris. She was 40-years-old and lived in Austin, Texas. She was gunned down in her own home, where she felt the most safe. A heartless coward used his power behind [...]
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