Karen Forbes wrote:
WM: I stood in the cold with Karen and Zack and VJ and all the others there. This time, it was an after-the-fact gathering, so I didn't have to see another dead child or young person bleeding out his//her life. I thought it would be better. It wasn't. I'm enraged and vulnerable. I want the person(s) who did this to spend Tyesha's life expectancy in prison after which, he can never come back here in this life.I just thought I would share some of my thoughts about the vigil I attended tonight on my block for 12 year old Tyesha that was killed in her dining room doing her homework. The vigil was well attended at least 100 people. It was nice that families came with their children and not just individuals. I could not get out of my mind how about 15 years ago we picketed the same block with a police escort and our SAFE person Brian Herron. Our block was successful in shutting down the crack houses. In their place PRG built and rehabbed some of the houses and a wonderful COOP took the place of the drug houses. With the senseless act that happened yesterday I kept hoping that our neighborhood is not returning to what we fought so hard to get rid of. I learned tonight that the girl's family has lived there since the inceptionof the PRG Dovetail COOP.
Tyesha Edwards was another bright little sunshine stolen from this world. We, as a people, cannot afford losing this child, nor any other. I'm not angry, I'm not furious. I'm rageful.
VJ and Randy Staton talked about coming together, finding ways to settle differences without killing. Yes. I waited for Sharon Lubinski, MPD. She vowed to find the shooter. Good.
I feel vulnerable with my family and friends, Karen and her family are vulnerable. We are all vulnerable when some jerkwater decides to be vicious. This shooter is the kind of person for whom prisons were built. If you have any information, call the police, please.
WizardMarks, Central
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