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Sobering
By Jeremy | November 1, 2007
Last week, 25-year-old Jayson Tirado was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer in an early morning traffic dispute. (Video)
I found out this morning that Jayson was one of three or four Tirado siblings who attended Generation Xcel in the mid-90s when we first opened. He attended school with my sister-in-law, and we shared several mutual friends and acquaintenances.
Two weeks ago in the Bronx, the "peanut man" (a street vendor who sells roasted peanuts) across the street from Latino Pastoral Action Center, a ministry partner and one of my clients, was executed in an apparent stick-up robbery.
Two nights ago, drive-by gun fire visited Harambee in Pasadena thirty minutes after the after school program ended.
Last night, Halloween revelry ended in gang mayhem in Manhattan's Union Square Park with four people shot and one stabbed.
We still have work to do.
Topics: generation xcel, guns, jayson tirado, new york, news, road rage, violence | No Comments »
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