David CookLaToya Holloman knew the man who was stabbed to death Sunday night in the first homicide of 2014. They’d talked not long ago.
“At my rally,” Holloman said.
Holloman, 29, is a growing figure in our city’s anti-violence efforts. She’s started a street ministry, and has organized weeklong rallies, marches, concerts, with another rally scheduled this Sunday at 4 p.m. at Orchard Park Seventh-day Adventist Church — all for one reason.
“Stop the violence,” she said.
But how? This will not be our last killing of 2014; in the months to come, there will be more shootings and stabbings in the same neighborhoods where folks were shot and stabbed in 2013. And 2012. And 2011.