guns
Sobering
Thursday, November 1st, 2007Last week, 25-year-old Jayson Tirado was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer in an early morning traffic dispute. (Video) I found out this morning that Jayson was one of three or four Tirado siblings who attended Generation Xcel in the mid-90s when we first opened. He attended school with my sister-in-law, and we [...]
Gun violence too close to home
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007A developing story just came across the news: a 10-year-old boy was shot within the past hour in Gompers Houses on Pitt Street, in the Lower East Side, just blocks from where my parents live and where we were ministering all week with JLYNY. Last week, on Wednesday night, a son shot his father just [...]