Blair Holt Peace Alliance
"AS WE GO WITH GOD, WE MUST REMAIN VISIBLE, VIGILANT
and VOCAL against ALL ACTS of VIOLENCE"
3632 south Calumet Avenue
Chicago, IL 60653
ph: 1-773-577-3222
fax: 1-773-285-0115
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Gregory Robinson, age 14 was shot and killed March 13, 2009 on 110th Place of Aberdeen Street. Robinson had just left a Simeon basketball game against Hyde Park Academy High School in Hinsdale with his family and was riding to a relative's house with his two older cousins and two small children. he was sitting in the backseat of the car, along with a 10-month old baby and a 4-year-old girl when the shots were fired.

Deontae Smith was found shot to death Saturday evening at a block party in the Englewood neighborhood, At about 11:40 p.m., police responded to shots fired in the 900 block of West 61st Street, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer. Police found Deontae Smith, 19, of the 6700 block of South Throop Street with a gunshot wound to his chest, He was pronounced dead at 3 a.m. at the Stein Institute, according to the Cook County medical exmainer's office. Another 17-year-old girl also was found shot in the thigh near the intersection of 61st and Green Streets. She was taken to John Stroger Hospital in serious-to-critical condition, Both teens were attending a block party in Englewood when a fight broke out and someone began shooting.
On April 4, 2006 18 year old Terrell Bosley was shot to death in a random act of violence on the city's Far South Side Tuesday night. Terrell was headed home from choir practice at Lights of Zion Missionary Bible Church (11636 S. Halasted) when he was gunned down in the parking lot. Bosley was struck by a bullet in the shoulder, but he managed to crawl into the church sanctuary where he died.

On December 4,2009 Frederick Collins, of the 500 block of West 75th Street, was found with a wound to his head about 6:40 a.m at 510 West 75th Street. Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak. Collins was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:43 a.m., according a Cook County medical examiner's office spokeswoman.

On Monday March 16, 2009 about 12:22am 21yr.old Jason Brown was sitting in the car on the 12000 block of south Harvard Street in Chicago. An unknown individual saw the vehicle and started shooting in it. Jason and a female companion in the car were shot. Jason died from his injuries.

Like many 12-year-old girls, Jahmeshia Conner's world wasn't all that big.
Her school, a place she desperately missed when sick, was at 65th Street and Seeley Avenue. There was the nearby Family Dollar, where she bought her favorite snacks. Her Englewood home, shared with four siblings and mother, was about four blocks east at Marshfield Avenue. Her aunt's house, where she spent hours singing and watching videos with cousins, was about seven blocks farther, near 63rd and Aberdeen streets.
At the center of all this was a secluded patch of an alley behind an empty home and next to a vacant lot. It was there, in the 6400 block of South Marshfield, that Jahmeshia's body was found Monday, facedown and strangled.

Terrell Brown was shot to death Saturday night on the Far South Side, authorities said.The man, identified by the Cook County medical examiner's office as Terrell Brown, was declared dead at 8:02 p.m. Saturday at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Brown was attacked and shot about 7 p.m. in the 9300 block of South May Street, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer JoAnn Taylor. He was shot in the back, chest and one of his legs, according to police. Brown, who was shot in front of home at that location, lived in the 1500 block of West 92nd Place.

On January 28, 2008 Kwana Shaw was buckling her son Josiah Shaw into her
SUV vehicle when a man approached her and shot her. Police later found 13 month old Josiah shot multiple times. He died from his injuries.
"IT IS NOT THE APPALLING BAD ACTS OF PEOPLE WHICH IS DANGEROUS, BUT THE INDIFFERENCE AND IN-ACTIONS ON THE PART OF THE GOOD PEOPLE WHO CHOOSE TO REMAIN SILENT." ---Martin Luther King, Jr.---
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3632 south Calumet Avenue
Chicago, IL 60653
ph: 1-773-577-3222
fax: 1-773-285-0115
alt: 1-773-430-6951
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