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Gun violence task force targeting kids in Roanoke
‘If we do not attack this problem, it’s only going to get worse.’
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ROANOKE, Va. – A different kind of pandemic is infecting the Star City: gun and gang violence.
“We are really dealing with a pandemic in ourselves and our community of gangs,” said one guest speaker, Jermaine Johnson. “If we do not attack this problem, it’s only going to get worse.”
Friday, Roanoke City’s gun violence task force held its virtual monthly meeting to discuss the next move.
Roanoke City Police presented information about gun violence incidents to the group. In 2020, there were 58 incidents where someone was hit by gunfire. There were 12 homicides.
This has been a difficult year for everyone, but Sue Wilson has had an especially hard time.
Wilson, 60, said she has been working all her life â mostly in the health care field. But in January, she was working as a kitchen supervisor at the Western Virginia Regional Jail. Sheâd been on the job for just two weeks when she slipped and fell, injuring a knee sheâd had replaced 10 years ago.
It took her five months to find a new job, she said, but in May, she was hired by a local hospital to clean and sterilize surgical instruments. Although many instruments these days are single-use, high-tech equipment such as camera-equipped scopes are used over and over, and must be cleaned by hand each time before theyâre sterilized. When Wilson became ill in July, she was diagnosed with COVID-19, and she said she was told she had been infected by the medical waste she had handled.