By HANNAH PHILLIPS, Palm Beach Post WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — To know if a mother’s heart has broken, look for Angela Williams on her street She’s usually hard on the heels of death, appearing at sites of fatal shootings across Palm Beach County to comfort those left in its wake. It only takes
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Sharnee Wallace – Mother Gregory Barnett Born 1/16/1990 – Died 3/18/2017 Sharnee Wallace has five children and lives in Riviera Beach. “Gregory was the second oldest child and lived in Mariana, Florida when he was shot and killed. When this happened I was at church serving another family who lost a son to gun violence.
Jackie Griffith Norman “Pooh” Griffith, Jr. November 25, 1989 – September 27, 2008 “I had six children but I have 5 now. At the time we lived in Pahokee and Pooh was my baby boy. He was just 17 years old when he passed. It happened in Belle Glade.” “It was the High School football
A photo of 24-year-old Jervonte L. Gibson who was killed March 20, 2019 in the Pleasant City neighborhood. His mom, Kamisha Gibson attended Mothers Against Murderers Association meeting recently in West Palm Beach. [GREG LOVETT/palmbeachpost.com]
Some of the hundreds of funeral program’s that Angela Williams has collected and put on bullet boards at Mothers Against Murderers Association in West Palm Beach. [GREG LOVETT/palmbeachpost.com] The memories Gibson has dozens of photos of her son readily accessible on her phone. Though the memory of her 24-year-old’s body at the funeral home will
During a recent Mothers Against Murderers Association meeting, Kamisha Gibson cries as she talks about her son, Jervonte Gibson, who was shot to death on March 20 in West Palm Beach. [GREG LOVETT/palmbeachpost.com] The plan Williams sees mothers go through three identities: victim, survivor and advocate. For years, Georgie Dixon, Williams’ sister, lived with an
They bear a woman’s pain when her child is killed. They push police and politicians for safer streets. You can find them in court, at funerals and in the glare of 3 a.m. police lights. Ask for MAMA. Editor’s note: This story is one of four in The Palm Beach Post’s profile of the Mothers
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida State University College of Law Public Interest Law Center (PILC) has received the American College of Trial Lawyers’ 2013 Emil Gumpert Award. The award recognizes programs whose principal purpose is to maintain and improve the administration of justice.
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