'If you’ve never experienced it, you don’t have a clue,' said Mothers in Charge founder Dorothy Johnson-Speight during an event for Philly families to remember loved ones lost to gun violence in honor of National Day of Remembrance for Homicide Victims.
Families came together on Sunday afternoon to grieve and honor their loved ones, and to hope and heal at aevent organized by antiviolence group Mothers In Charge.
Held at Location 215 in Spring Garden, this year’s event featured massage chairs, catered food, and mugs filled with candy and a $100 Target gift card for mothers, along with painful but encouraging speeches from women who’ve lost children to gun violence. A decorated banquet room was filled with families wearing shirts and holding images of their murdered loved ones.
Another was Zykeem Thomas, who was killed in July 2021 at 27 years old. His mother, Rebecca Thomas, admitted before the packed room that she was only just beginning to face her own grief and loss. “It reminds the country of the pain and grief that so many families suffer,” Johnson-Speight said. “It’s a different kind of pain than any other loss...because someone made a conscious decision to take another person’s life.”
At Temple University Sunday, the school’s Police Association hosted a “Stop the Violence” peace walk from Bright Hope Baptist Church through Temple’s campus. Among the 60-some people in attendance was Denise Singleton, whose son Kyle Singleton was killed on the 1800 block of North 28th Street in Brewerytown on May 11th. He was29.
Former District Attorney Seth Williams, who now runs a job training program for at-risk people and those with criminal records, focused on getting guns off the street and holding violent perpetrators accountable. He touted focused deterrence, a program his office used to try and target people at risk to shoot or be shot.
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