Anti-Violence Vigil in SouthSide Draws 50
Candlelight vigil for peace held on street where gun battle left one woman dead and five others hurt six nights ago.
More than 50 people stood in a parking lot along E. Third Street in South Bethlehem Friday night to hold a candlelight vigil for peace, to speak out against gun violence on city streets and to pray for the young woman who was gunned down a few feet away six nights ago. “We need to start healing as a community,” said Guillermo Lopez, a longtime Bethlehem community activist and one of the event’s organizers. “Yolanda Morales died much too young.” Bethlehem Police on Friday charged Rene Figueroa, 32, of Allentown, with homicide in the death of Morales, a 23-year-old woman from Bethlehem. Police also charged Javier Rivera-Alvarado, 38, also of Allentown, who is also accused of firing a gun during the melee. An argument between two men inside…
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raquel melendez
8:57 am on Saturday, December 8, 2012
i was there with my son to watch the figth cotto , puertorican ] i live at 1,am,my son steel there ,the table beside of us was the girl, how die,,,, puertorican club ,keep the people until 400am ,.,im verry worry because i never go to any place in night ,like this , yo much violence..... more ›