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Tribute to Starkesia Reed
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 [...]
Tribute to Nancy Bishop Langert
Nancy Bishop Langert, 25, along with her husband, Richard, and their unborn child, were murdered on April 7, 1990. They were shot with a .357 magnum by a “thrill-seeking” 16-year-old whose motive was that he “wanted to see what it would feel like to shoot someone.” Nancy and Richard were at the happiest time of [...]
Tribute to André Bohanon
On December 16, 2011 my life turned upside down when my son André D. Bohanon was robbed and shot. On December 18, 2011, we took my André off life support because that wasn’t living. André was 21 years old and a licensed barber. He was just starting his life. He had a plan for his life and [...]
Tribute to Scott Corwin
This is a tribute to my brother, (Captain) Scott Corwin, who was shot and killed in Savannah, Georgia on May 29, 2004. He was stationed down at Ft. Stewart with the Army. Scott was getting ready to be deployed to Iraq when one night while walking home, he was murdered in the streets of our [...]
Tribute to Antonio E. Marquez
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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