{"id":15748,"date":"2012-07-19T15:45:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T19:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15748"},"modified":"2012-07-19T15:45:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T19:45:42","slug":"gunfire-erupts-at-stop-the-violence-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15748","title":{"rendered":"Gunfire Erupts At \u2018Stop The Violence\u2019 Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong>
\n Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday would have been the 19th birthday of Iesha Washington (pictured)<\/strong>. Although the young woman was killed last summer, her mother decided to hold a \u201cStop The Violence\u201d Movement in her honor.<\/p>\n

Ms. Vanetta Scott<\/strong> said her pastor, Rev. Michael B. Price<\/strong>, of St. James AME Church allowed them to hold part of the program inside the church. After that portion of the program was over, the group moved outside to the park.<\/p>\n

Ms. Scott<\/strong> said that is when the trouble began.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were about to feed the people when all of a sudden gunfire erupted. Someone fired about 20 gunshots. But, they can\u2019t stop me, if they take my life, they can\u2019t stop me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Scott<\/strong> said no one was injured and no arrests made.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not giving up. This lets me know I\u2019m doing it for the right reason. God is good and this violence has to stop. Families are hurting. I pray that God will be with the family of the boy who killed my child because they have lost him, too. The only difference is, they can go see him, but I can\u2019t go see my child,\u201d Ms. Scott<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n

She further said the event was an experience and she has learned a lot. She didn\u2019t know she needed permits, but was able to get them.<\/p>\n

Ms. Scott<\/strong> also said that her pastor said she can still accomplish her goal, she just has to do things differently. The church will partner with her next year.<\/p>\n

Last July, a group of young people gathered at the International Chemical Workers Union Council, Local 439 Clubhouse for a party. Ms. Scott\u2019s<\/strong> daughter and a young man died after shots were fired indiscriminately into the huge crowd.<\/p>\n

Iesha Washington<\/strong> and Craig A. Thompson<\/strong> died after being hit by gunfire. Ms. Scott said the movement was planned as a memorial to the slain young adults.<\/p>\n

Ms. Scott<\/strong> said that despite the gunfire, it was a very nice event with attendance ranging between 200 and 300 people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had so much food there because of the article in the Sentinel<\/strong><\/em>. I had hired a DJ and he brought me the money back. He said an anonymous donor had paid him.<\/p>\n

Ms. Scott<\/strong> said she will not be stopped by the incident. \u201cEvery day I think of something to add to my agenda to get the message of non-violence out to these children. They can\u2019t stop me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor Tuesday would have been the 19th birthday of Iesha Washington (pictured). Although the young woman was killed last summer, her mother decided to hold a \u201cStop The Violence\u201d Movement in her honor. Ms. Vanetta Scott said her pastor, Rev. Michael B. Price, of St. James AME Church allowed […]<\/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-15748","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\/15748","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=15748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}