"I got to bury my son on his first Father's Day. And he was just 22. He didn't have a chance!" Stephanie Brown of Chester said.
A picture is all Stephanie has left to cling to of her son Kaleah. He was shot and killed just two days ago.
Rose Cooper shares her pain.
"This is hard. This is not easy. He was my only child," Cooper said.
Her son, Larry Carter, was murdered May 5th.
Each young man was among the most recent victims of what their grieving mothers call senseless violence on Chester's streets.
And so on those streets tonight, mothers gathered with pictures and stories of their own.
Fed up with crime robbing families of their children and Chester of its patience, city leaders and residents joined together for the first of 10 weekly gatherings.
It is part of Mayor Wendell Butler's so called Anti-Violence Tour, a rallying cry for a community held hostage.
"All they want is to come home, live in tranquility, go out, come back and without having the fear of someone driving by, shooting a gun, and acting like a plain, old fool," Mayor Butler said.
This event, designed to bring attention to the victims of violence, coincides with another, the Chester 12, a list of a dozen unsolved murders this community wants cracked.
The first on that list is the murder of 2-year-old Terrence Webster; he was caught in the crossfire and gunned down this past Sunday.
Webster is another child, another picture, and another reason Stephanie Brown came out with the rest nearly 48 hours after her son was forced to leave his son without a father.
"It needs to stop. Children killing children. Get an education. Get a job and live your life, cause this is not it," Brown said.
