DA s fourth annual March to End Gun Violence set for Saturday in Longwood – Bronx Times bxtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bxtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The weekly meetings are meant to bring together school leaders with the NYPD to discuss safe passage programs, how the police can support schools after school, or how to respond when incidents occur, among other topics.
While local organizations have launched a number of preventive programs and support services in their communities aimed at quelling the violence, they know there are no easy answers to getting a lid on the crisis. The run of recent violent episodes involving teenagers has magnified a longstanding problem.
Victim Unique Smith was confronted by two masked teens as he sat on a park bench with two girls inside McLaughlin Park in Downtown Brooklyn on the first day of school, about 1:30 p.m. Sept. 7, police said.
Eight organs from Josue Lopez-Ortega, 15, were donated to the recipients after his shocking fatal shooting, the final act in a too-short life for the youth fondly remembered by family and friends as good kid with a love of basketball.