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Pastor Collins Owino [3rd from right] of New Jerusalem Church prays at Eric Omondi s residence in Mombasa. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]
Erick Otieno who perished with his wife and their three children in a car crash at Samburu area on the Mombasa-Nairobi highway had literally planned to kill two birds with one stone.
Otieno had planned to attend his kin s burial in Nyakach and later take his children to greet his mother. It is said he was excited that three children were going to meet their grandmother.
But he also planned to be back on Thursday in time to take his two girls - Mary,7, and Judith,5, to school on Monday. Mary was in Grade One at Due-Luck Academy and Judith in PP1 at St Stephen s Academy.
As violent crime in Jackson continues to surge, federal, state and community leaders made a promise to work together during a crime summit, but offered few tangible gains Tuesday night.
Jackson City Council President Aaron Banks, who organized the summit, said the meeting was an all-hands-on-deck forum to tackle the community s surge of gun violence and present a united front moving forward.
It comes as the city s homicide rate continues to surge in 2021 and is on pace to overshadow last year s historic total of 130 deaths. Nearly all of those deaths were gun-related, according to records kept by the Clarion Ledger.