Buffalo anti-violence groups receive nearly $220K in funding from state It'll allow them to hire people full-time to focus on reducing the number of people shot and killed every year. Author: Danielle Church (WGRZ) Updated: 5:52 PM EDT July 13, 2021 BUFFALO, N.Y. — The number of people Jeanne Kennedy Lagall has lost to gun violence seems to never end. "My sister, my brother, a boyfriend, cousins, neighbors, the list is too long," Lagall said. She says all of them were innocent, caught in the crossfire of gun violence. It's a reality for many other Buffalonians too with more than 40 homicides alone in the city so far this year.