{"id":11368,"date":"2011-11-14T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11368"},"modified":"2011-11-14T15:37:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T20:37:28","slug":"%e2%80%98stop-violence%e2%80%99-meeting-draws-large-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11368","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop Violence\u2019 Meeting Draws Large Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Within the last two weeks, four African American males have died from gunshot wounds. Additionally, seven others have survived shootings.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, a capacity crowd gathered at the Chloe Coney Urban Center for a \u201cStop The Gang And Gun Violence\u201d Task Force meeting. <strong>Ernest Coney, Jr.<\/strong>, Interim Executive Director of the Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, Inc., (CDC of Tampa, Inc.), said \u201cWe had a very diverse group of between 150 and 200 people. The people came from all walks of life and it really went well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had some youths who came and were able to provide information from a different perspective. They talked about their issues such as other youths representing certain neighborhoods that cause a lot of conflict, certain songs that are played at parties that cause conflict, and some even admitted that they are afraid to go out into their own neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that those in attendance then broke into smaller groups. Each group was asked to develop 3 focus areas for future attention. \u201cWe are going to compile that information and get it back to the community within two weeks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coney<\/strong> decided to call the meeting to form a task force after 17-year-old <strong>John Singleton, Jr.<\/strong>, was killed on October 29th, while attending a party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Singleton<\/strong> had participated in the organization\u2019s Youth Leadership Program for the past 3 years. At the time of his death, he was a junior at Tampa Bay Technical High School, and maintained a grade point average of 2.98 with honors and college prep classes. <strong>Singleton<\/strong> was also the Historian for the CDC of Tampa Youth Leadership Club (Teens).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to <strong>Singleton<\/strong>, <strong>Hipolito Padilla, III<\/strong>, 25, was killed on November 5th, during a robbery; <strong>Jamarie Hodges<\/strong>, 16, was killed in front of his home attempting to help a friend; and 39-year-old <strong>Charon Shaw<\/strong> died on November 9th, during a domestic dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor Within the last two weeks, four African American males have died from gunshot wounds. Additionally, seven others have survived shootings. Last Thursday, a capacity crowd gathered at the Chloe Coney Urban Center for a \u201cStop The Gang And Gun Violence\u201d Task Force meeting. Ernest Coney, Jr., Interim Executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}