Posters featuring photographs of 48 homicide victims whose cases have gone unsolved have been placed at 10 bus shelters across Los Angeles County, from West and East L.A., to Arcadia in the San Gabriel Valley.
LaWanda Hawkins, whose son was killed in 1995, gives directions before unveiling the first bus shelter in a campaign featuring photographs of victims of unsolved homicides.
In red, the posters ask “Do you know who MURDERED us?” The posters include contact information for several nonprofit victim’s rights organizations. The homicide rate has been declining for decades. In 2000, more than 1,000 people were killed in L.A. County. Last year, 636 people were killed, according to a data analysis by The Times.
"We don't want anyone to be forgotten," said Capt. Billy Brockway, who heads the LAPD’s South Bureau homicide division."If there's something that aids us in the ability to do so, we're all for it." “It means the world” to know that people like Hawkins make sure her son isn’t forgotten, Jennifer Riddle said.AdvertisementFor Kristen Turman, nearly two years have passed since she collapsed in her living room after police told her that her 20-year-old son had been shot in Harbor City while riding his bicycle home. Anthony Iniguez left behind two sons, and Turman makes sure that the kids grow up hearing about their father.
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