Mayor Frank Jackson comments: Cleveland community, activists to rally June 22, 2018 as to the shooting death of 9-year-old Saniyah Nicholson by a stray bullet during a shootout, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson saying that "to those who have perpetrated this crime and [caused] other deaths of innocents, we will not tolerate this and will arrest you and prosecute you."....By ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers, Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com
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Saniyah Nicholson |
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio -Community members, led by local community activists groups, will rally at 5:30 pm on Friday, June 22, 2018 in response to the shooting death Wednesday of nine-year-old Saniyah Nicholson, who died of a gun shot wound to the head after being shot while sitting in her mother's car at the scene of a shootout on Cleveland's largely Black east side on Lee Road near Cloverside Avenue in Ward 1.
Organizers said they will assemble in the parking lot outside of Walgreen's at the Lee-Harvard Shopping Center at 4061 Lee Road in Cleveland.
The vigil and rally will be held across the street, which is where Saniyah was killed
Family members of the slain girl, including her parents, are expected to attend, and also speak at the gathering, organizers said.
Three of the four suspects are in custody, two teens and one adult, and another, also a teen, remains at large. All of them are Black.
The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner confirmed the identity of the girl, who was Black and a resident of Maple Heights, a Cleveland suburb.
Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads the Cleveland-based Imperial Women Coalition, called for "swift attention by city of Cleveland and law enforcement officials as to the matter and for violence against women, girls, and children to cease."
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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson |
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, flanked by Police Chief Calvin Williams, was livid.
"To those who have perpetrated this crime and [caused] other deaths of innocents, we will not tolerate this and will arrest you and prosecute you," said Jackson at a press conference on Thursday.
Witnesses purportedly told Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones and police that the girl was seated in her mother's Chrysler when the gunfire erupted and a stray bullet hit her in the head. She died later at University Hospital's Rainbow and Babies Children's Hospital.
According to police reports, the girl's mother, Marshawnette Daniels, parked to pick up her teenage son at DNA Level Boxing Club on Lee Road and the girl, in the car with an adult sister, was killed when her mother went inside to get him.
Councilman Jones allegedly told police that witnesses said the shootout was between a group outside of the gym and a group in a car, both groups allegedly exchanging gun fire that resulted in the tragic incident.
The murder rate in Cleveland is 37 per 100,000, research reveals, and Cleveland, notorious for the murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Avenue by serial killer Anthony Sowell, is ranked by Forbes as the fifth most deadliest city in the nation relative to its murder rate.
The largely Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland had 128 homicide deaths in 2017, authorities said, and they are mounting for this year. It has tallied some 61 unsolved murders of women dating back to 2004, data show.
ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 5 million readers on Google Plus alone. And the ClevelandUrbanNews.Com website stats reveal some 26 million hits since 2012. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
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