ACTION calls for community to help stem Youngstown violence

YOUNGSTOWN — Members of clergy and the faith-based community organizing group ACTION are asking the public to join with them in reclaiming the city after a double homicide on the South Side last week.

The Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing Our Neighborhoods called a press conference today at the E.B. Family Life Center asking parents and others to take a stand against crime and violence after the murders of 20-year-old Pako Lacey and his 17-year-old girlfriend Juanetta Franklin in the middle of the day in a crowded South Side neighborhood.

The deaths brought the city’s homicide total to 12 for this year, and half of the victims were 21 or younger. There were only four homicides at this time in 2011.

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