Wicker Park in Highland was filled Friday morning with demonstrators wearing orange shirts for the first 24-hour End Gun Violence Walk hosted by the local organization Circle of Love.
Pam Newsom and her mom joined more than 75 people in walking with Hammond-based Group Circle of Love’s inaugural End Gun Violence Walk Friday at Wicker Memorial Park in Highland. Having cofounded her own support group after her son Iyuan Yarbrought’s March 2016 murder in which he was killed by man who’d dated the woman he was seeing, doing something anything makes all the difference in getting to the next day.
"Gun violence is destroying our families. It s an emotional roller coaster," Pamela Yarbrought-Newson. "The shooters think they re harming that person, but in reality it s the family that suffers."