BROOKLYN, NY (PIX11)—Brooklyn officials are trying to fight gun violence with a gun buyback event held Saturday in Bed-Stuy.
For Michelle Barnes-Anderson, the mission is deeply personal after losing her only son to a shooting in the borough.
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“To live without my child is the worst thing in the world you could ever do,” she said. “It feels like bricks every morning getting out the bed.”
Her son, Melquain Jatelle Anderson, was gunned down at a bus stop near the Farragut Houses in 2017. Today, the pain of his death still lives with his family…