Against the backdrop of declining homicides, an anti-gun violence group hosted a “Rally for Peace” in West Palm Beach last weekend, supporting families of shooting victims and promoting resources for young men in violent neighborhoods.
The event Saturday organized by Inner City Innovators saw more than 100 people turn out, donned in orange shirts — the color for gun violence awareness — at Coleman Park’s gymnasium, near the once-deadly Tamarind corridor.
Ricky Aiken founded the group more than a decade ago, responding to a spike in violence in the neighborhood. He said Inner City Innovators started out informally in 2015. Volunteers rented vans, responding to shootings by taking young people away from the area where they occurred, in order to prevent retaliation…