Baltimore City school communities are mourning the lives of 11 students who were killed by gun violence since last May — and calling for further action to reduce that number to zero.
At the district’s seventh annual Peace and Remembrance ceremony on Thursday morning, school officials joined friends and family of the victims in front of the central office building.
A student choir from ConneXions Community Art School sang an acapella tribute. Community members held signs with each teenagers’ name to serve as a physical marker of the lives lost.
Attendees cried, hugged and stood in a moment of silence.
Read more (and listen) at WYPR.
