“Twenty-two years and still no resolution to our children being lost to gun violence,” said Elisha Ross of Dorchester, whose son Michael Ross was killed by gunfire on March 30. “Where does it end? How does it end? It ends with us here today. … My son Michal somehow knew his live would end in the streets.”
She was speaking to a crowd of hundreds at the 22nd annual Mother’s Day Walk For Peace this morning, organized by the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute. The route went from Fields Corner to Boston City Hall.
“The power of survivors and celebrating the effects of community. We are celebrating the power of survivors to influence, impact and inform public policy,” said Tina Chéry, who founded Boston’s Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, after her 15-year-old son Lous was killed by a stray bullet from a shootout between men on a December afternoon in 1993. “We’re stepping into our power and demanding dignity and compassion for all.”
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