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Mayor Harrell, Alongside Community Leaders, Honored Gun Violence Victims at New Memorial Garden Located in MLK Jr. Park
On Friday, June 7th, Mayor Bruce Harrell, city officials, and community leaders reflected on the recent surge in gun violence and commemorated a new garden in memory of victims of gun violence at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park. This event comes in the wake of a shooting at Garfield High School, where 17-year-old Amarr Murphy-Paine was shot and killed while attempting to break up a fight between the shooter and another person.
Eleuthera Lisch gives update on Gun Violence Disruption in King County
Last week on The Day with Trae, guest host Deaunte Damper sat down with Eleuthera Lisch, the Director of the King County Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention. In this episode, Damper and Lisch discuss the current state of gun violence within the United States and what actions are being implemented to deter it.
Sorority of Sorrow: We Got Us Moms is creating space for moms whose children were killed by #GunViolence
Donnitta Sinclair started We Got Us Moms to create a space for mothers whose children were killed by what she calls The Disease of Gun Violence after her own son, Lorenzo Anderson Jr. was murdered in June of 2020 and she found no real place for culturally relevant support to help deal with the trauma that she and her family were navigating.
