Mount Vernon Community Gathers For Gun Violence Awareness Month
Bright orange balloons, ribbons, outfits and posters saying “end gun violence” were on display at the Gun Violence Awareness Month kickoff event at the Doles Center in Mount Vernon. Community members and partners gathered to speak about gun violence within the nation and how Mount Vernon can work to end this growing “epidemic” on June 7. Across the country mass shootings such as in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York and more recently in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, have called communities to speak up against gun violence as the number of mass shootings are increasing. As of today, there have been 254 mass shootings according to the Gun Violence Archive. Among that number, 158 deaths were of children aged 0-11 and 569 deaths were of teens aged 12-17. Overall, there are a total of 19,200-gun violence deaths. Among the attendees and speakers included Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard, Pastor Damon Mack, City Council President Derrick Thompson, journalist Samson Styles, Cynthia Turnquest-Jones, founder of Tha Brown Urban Mother Partners, Inc., the Mount Vernon Police Department and others. Additionally, organizations including the Youth Shelter Program of Westchester, Westhab and SNUG Outreach were present providing information about the work that they do specifically [...]
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Bright orange balloons, ribbons, outfits and posters saying “end gun violence” were on display at the Gun Violence Awareness Month kickoff event at the Doles Center in Mount Vernon. Community members and partners gathered to speak about gun violence within the nation and how Mount Vernon can work to end this growing “epidemic” on June 7. Across the country mass shootings such as in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York and more recently in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, have called communities to speak up against gun violence as the number of mass shootings are increasing. As of today, there have been 254 mass shootings according to the Gun Violence Archive. Among that number, 158 deaths were of children aged 0-11 and 569 deaths were of teens aged 12-17. Overall, there are a total of 19,200-gun violence deaths. Among the attendees and speakers included Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard, Pastor Damon Mack, City Council President Derrick Thompson, journalist Samson Styles, Cynthia Turnquest-Jones, founder of Tha Brown Urban Mother Partners, Inc., the Mount Vernon Police Department and others. Additionally, organizations including the Youth Shelter Program of Westchester, Westhab and SNUG Outreach were present providing information about the work that they do specifically [...]
