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While talking with others outside a Marathon gas station at the end of North Randolph Street Sunday morning, Omar Villarreal ranted in the wake of Indianapolis latest mass killing.
Between puffs of his cigarette, he spoke of the wave of violence that consumed the city last year and into this year as if it were a virus with no known cure.
At the other end of North Randolph Street, police tape and crime scene vehicles surrounded a light gray home where gunshots rang out and altered the lives of countless people just hours before.
While talking with others outside a Marathon gas station at the end of North Randolph Street on Sunday morning, Omar Villarreal ranted in the wake of Indianapolisâ latest mass killing.
Between puffs of his cigarette, he spoke of the wave of violence that consumed the city last year and into this year as if it were a virus with no known cure.
At the other end of North Randolph Street, police tape and crime scene vehicles surrounded a light gray home where gunshots rang out and altered the lives of countless people just hours before.
Three adults and one child were killed there Saturday night in what police have said was a domestic incident. A 6-month-old taken from the scene was found safe.
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Mt. Pleasant NOW, the area s community development corporation located off Kinsman Road in Cleveland, has been the site of violent crimes in the past. Mt. Pleasant NOW and other organizers in the city say they haven t given up on launching the Ten Point Coalition crime reduction program.
Back in 2018, former Cleveland mayoral candidate Robert Kilo and pastors from the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood were joined by Indiana-based representatives of a violence reduction initiative to announce its launch in Cleveland.
The program never took hold in Cleveland, beyond some initial media exposure.
“I think anytime something new is introduced to a city like Cleveland that s been doing things a certain way, it can create potential challenges,” Kilo said. “But I would suggest it just hasn t been the right timing previously.”