West Philly residents mark MLK Day by pleading for end to gun violence WPVI UP NEXT
In West Philadelphia on Monday night, residents marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day by pleading for an end to gun violence.
Mikell Stokes has been touched by gun violence twice. First, her son Gerald Campbell, and most recently her wife, Melanie Raye in 2020.
She joined a dozen of other mothers on the 200 block of Simpson Street on Monday, all of whom have lost children to gun violence. They re mission to call attention to the continued bloodshed on city streets, as part of a call to action on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.