“As we prepare for the holidays, a family in our community is preparing to bury their child. A needless, senseless victim of gun violence that plagues our community,” Sheriff Waters said.
Sheriff T.K. Waters, Mayor Lenny Curry and First Coast Crime Stoppers executive director Wyllie Hodges spoke at a news conference Monday evening about “recent violence in Jacksonville.”, saying that the city is not defined by “senseless violence” and announcing a workforce to better target violent crime.
“As we prepare for the holidays, a family in our community is preparing to bury their child. A needless, senseless victim of gun violence that plagues our community,” Waters said. “While this family has suffered unimaginable loss, our entire community grieves with them. Today I stand before you with our community and faith leaders to share that this grief has not broken our community. To the contrary, this belief has emboldened us and hardened our resolve.
“As a father, I cannot express the level of grief and anger. The unthinkable happened,” Curry said. “The senseless loss of a 13-year-old child and the permanent scars that will remain on the other children that were in the car.”‘They snatched my baby’s life away’: Devastated mother shares name of 13-year-old killed in drive-by“He went to church every Sunday. He played sports. He took the other kids to play sports so they wouldn’t be out here doing drugs, smoking and being in gangs,” Brown said.
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