November 5, 2024
Since joining the Mothers of Murdered Columbus Children private Facebook group, I’ve found it to be a wonderful organization. This organization not only aims to prevent murders in our city, but it also provides support to mothers like me who have lost a child to violence.
While some posts can inspire, uplift, and provide community information about workshops, food drives, and fundraisers, others can be quite emotional. To bring about change, they must include tear-jerker posts when reporting facts about violence happening in our city.
As I was scrolling through the page, today’s post caught my attention and made my heart skip a beat. This post comes from the public MOMCC social media page, so it is acceptable to share outside the group.
It caught my attention because for the first time I saw my son, as a statistic. John is included in the total number of murders for the month of July 2024.
Let me say this again. On July 28, 2024, John became a homicide statistic.
I never really thought about that until I saw the total number of monthly homicides in written format.
That’s something a mother NEVER wants to have to see or say.
Ever!
