Thread by @NewtownAction

1) This week, we are proud to join @Everytown & other GVP groups to lift up the voices of survivors on National Gun Violence Survivor Week. Many of these stories were shared at the National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence. #MomentsThatSurvive newtownfoundation.org/nationalgunvio…

2) My son Terrell was just 18 years old when he was shot and killed on 4/4/06, in the city of Chicago, while on the grounds of a church. At church. A place that should have been safe. But as we learn every day, there is no such thing as a safe place! newtownfoundation.org/pamela-boseley

3) “My son Akilah Dasilva was 23 years old when he was murdered on April 22, 2018 with three others at a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee. Akilah was a musician whose music spoke against guns and violence.”
-Shaundelle Brooks newtownfoundation.org/shaundelle-bro…

4) “In the early morning hours of 12/28/13, my son Craig Williams stopped at a neighborhood store to buy some snacks, when he was approached by several men & gunned down.” -Valerie Burgest newtownfoundation.org/valerie-burgest #MomentsThatSurvive

5) “My daughter Tyesa was sixteen when she was killed by a stray bullet as she was coming out of the movies theater.” -Delphine Cherry #MomentsThatSurvive newtownfoundation.org/delphine-cherry

6) “Nina should be here. But there are no laws in place to have protected her from her husband or herself.“-Yvonne Crasso, Connecticut, Board Member of Newtown Action Alliance newtownfoundation.org/yvonne-crasso #MomentsThatSurvive

7) “I lost my nephew, Pierre-Paul Jean-Paul on November 11, 2008 as a result of gun violence and both my sons, TJ and Theodore, were victims of gunshots in their communities”
-Marie Delus newtownfoundation.org/marie-delus #MomentsThatSurvive

8) “My only child Dedrick Earl was shot and killed by an angry man with a gun because of dried burnt ashes that was on his car put their by my sons friend. My son was defending his friend when he was shot and killed.”
-Diana Earl newtownfoundation.org/diana-earl #MomentsThatSurvive

9) “Nobody should know what it feels like to live with a memory of your child running down the hallway with an AR-15 aimed at her back, forever deemed one of “the unlucky.” -@fred_guttenberg newtownfoundation.org/fred-guttenberg #MomentsThatSurvive #EndGunViolence

10) “My sister in law & three nieces (age 5, 3, & 5 months) were shot & killed by her husband/their father on 9/11/1995 in Scotts Mills, Oregon. My mother-in-law was also shot but survived...”-@drdoreendm & Thomas Magee newtownfoundation.org/doreendodgenth… #MomentsThatSurvive #EndGunViolence