Peace March Planned in Response to Surge in Fort Greene Gun Violence
In the wake of Fort Greene’s three shootings this month and a troubling two-homicide total for 2012 that already matches the neighborhood’s total for all of 2011, Council Member Letitia James (D-Fort Greene) and other local leaders have called for a march against gun violence on Sunday, April 1, to coincide with Palm Sunday, according to Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Patch.
The demonstration will try to put an epitaph on a summery March that brought Fort Greene early blooms and three shootings in as many weeks, two of them fatal.
The march will begin at 3 p.m. at the Walt Whitman Houses at 84 Carlton Ave., where 20-year-old Justin Cherry was fatally shot on March 5, and it will continue to the nearby Ingersoll Houses, the site of two shootings in two days on March 20 and 21.