State Rep. Jamilah Nasheed talks to area residents during a special “stop the violence” vigil in a North St. Louis neighborhood, as (foreground) St. Louis Police Chief Dan Isom and Mayor Francis Mayor listen.
It was slightly more than two weeks ago when bullets continued to fly around a Northside African-American, work-ethic neighborhood. Last Spring, mothers let their girls play hopscotch on the sidewalks, and the boys would play a short-term baseball game in the streets, near the watchful eye of their big brother or sister, or mother.
Today the O’Fallon/Penrose neighborhood is on high alert, after the rash of senseless murders and violence by apparent gang warfare.
Darlene Noble was shot and killed several Tuesday mornings ago, outside a vacant four-family flat in the 4300 block of Lee Avenue. Like the last four other shootings in one week in that area, residents -- including Operation Unity residents -- called it a cowardly act.
More than 150 area residents have become sick and tired of the gunshots – deaths and injuries during the recent rash of shootings and high drama in the O’Fallon and Penrose neighborhoods in north St. Louis, so much they sought help from their elected officials and their police department’s gang unit.
A group fed up with the deadly violence, recently marched the streets of North St. Louis, united and led by, state Rep. Jamilah Nasheed, D-Mo., Mayor Francis Slay, Police Chief Dan Isom, James Clark, Alderman Antonio French, ministers and residents, some members of Operation Unity. Entire story>>
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