A morning breeze cooled a small crowd of mourning mothers and grandmothers on Saturday, holding signs with messages like “Save Our Children” to the passing traffic on Scenic Highway.
Around a dozen women, many of them ministers or family members of gun violence victims, stood in the parking lot of Kutt N’ Korner’s barber shop to share prayers and honor the memory of two young children killed by gunfire this past week.
Cathy Toliver lost a 3-year-old grandson in 2022 when a stray bullet came through his bedroom wall and struck him as he lay in his bed. Since then, she has made it her mission to bring prayer to the street wherever the violence is worst, she said…