May 25, 2016
Johneece Cobb (left) and Debra Butler are joined by Butler’s daughter to honor the memory of loved ones lost to gun violence. Cobb lost her 19-year old nephew, Edwin Cook, to a random shooting in February 2015 while Butler lost her son, Jeffrey, in a July 2011 drive by shooting.
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Protesters Gather In A Prayer for Peace
Prayer On The 9 On a brilliant, cloud-free, sun-kissed, Saturday, an estimated 4,600 community residents joined the friends and family of murder victims and laid down along every block of east 79th St. from Greenwood Ave. to the Dan Ryan Expressway (Interstate 94) to honor the lives of neighbors and loved ones lost to gun violence, and to make a citywide plea for peace.