PKG:Gun violence rises, LaPorscha Stringer's case progresses
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In our top story at 11... gun violence has risen to the forefront of public consciousness in lexington after a rash of shootings.
Amidst that fresh violence came word of an arrest in a year old lexington murder.
Police charging markeeta campbell with shooting and killing laporscha stringer as stringer was leaving the fayette mall parking lot.
Tonight, abc 36's monica harkins talked with stringer's grandmother... who is pleading with people to stop solving problems with a gun.
L3: top story white gun violence: one family's story lexington ### "lucy jones; it's awful that these parents is losing their babies they supposed to be burying us, we're not supposed to be burying them."
A grandma..to a gun violence victim...feeling the pain of recent c1 3 shootings in lexington.
"lucy jones: what happened to fist fighting and and making up?
It's too many deaths going down here."
Jones' grand- daughter who felt more like a daughter...laporsc ha stringer... was shot and killed in her car leaving fayette mall august 23-rd 2019.
Monday, august 31- st, 2020 police arrested markeeta campbell...accusing her of stinger's murder.
It's an arrest, not a conviction, but jones says it's progress she's been praying for.
"lucy jones: i counted every day.
Yeah, a year and eight days.
And when he called me and told me that, oh my god you're kidding me.
You're lying to me i just, i just almost passed out."
As for stringer's three children... "jones: the youngest one trinity sat at the end of her bed.
And she just started boohooin' and cryin'.
And i said 'what's wrong?'
She wouldn't tell me.
I said 'tell me what's wrong.
She said, 'i miss my mommy so much.'
That just hurts me so bad."
A pain she doesn't wish on any family.
"jones: i just wish these kids were put these guns down, you know, stop all of this killing."
A split-second action...that lasts a lifetime for those left behind.
For lucy jones...her faith has sustained her.
"jones: he brought me through this storm, he'll take me through the next one."
A storm of emotions....she'll have to weather when markeeta campbell goes on trial for laporscha stringer's murder.
In lexington, monica harkins, abc 36 news.
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