Six-year-old Clevelander Lyric Lawson to be laid to rest October 19, 2019, the Black child a victim of a drive by shooting as the killer or killers remain at large...."We need a thousand Black men and women to come out to say farewell to Lyric as her killer or killers are still at large," said longtime Cleveland activist Art McKoy of Black on Black Crime and the Black Man's Army who will speak on behalf of community activists at the homegoing celebration....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com

Six-year-old Cleveland drive by shooting murder victim Lyric Melodi Lawson

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community activists, community members and family and friends of 6-year-old Lyric Melodi Lawson, who died from a gunshot wound to the head while sleeping in her bed at 1300 block of E. 71st Street and St Clair Ave in the South Collinwood Neighborhood on Cleveland's largely Black east side, will come together at 10 am on Sat , Oct 19 at Mount Sinai Baptist Church on the city's east side for funeral services as the Black child is laid to rest.

"We need a thousand Black men and women to come out to say farewell to Lyric as her killer or killers are still at large," said longtime Cleveland activist Art McKoy of Black on Black Crime and the Black Man's Army, who will speak on behalf of community activists at the homegoing celebration. "If you are truly tired of our children being murdered unmercifully, please join us for this necessary occasion."

A first grader at Hannah Gibbons Stem School in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Lyric died following a drive-by shooting where 28 shots were fired into the home where she was sleeping the night of the crime, the same home in which a man was shot and killed last month.

The suspect or suspects in Lyric's murder remain at large.

The girl's mother, aunt and five other children in the home that night were not harmed, sources said.

Witnesses told police a car was seen leaving the scene of the deadly shooting last but gave no description other than it was dark-colored car, authorities said .

Mayor Jackson and members of city council, led by Ward 10 Councilman Anthony Hairston, whose ward is where the incident occurred, held a press conference on the steps of City Hall in response to the tragic killing to denounce gun violence.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief at Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 As to the one-on-one interview by Coleman with Obama  CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.