KATIE RICKMAN | THE VINDICATOR

July 21, 2014 at 12:00a.m.

Georgia West, second from left, founder of Survivors of Our Grief, holds her 5-year-old grandson, Isaiah O’Neal, at the “Knock Out the Violence” event in Boardman. One of her sons, Ivan West, murdered last year in Youngstown, is in the picture. Also with her was another son, Sheldon Grayson, and Addie Smith, a Survivors member. The Rev. John Harris, top, of St. Francis Anglican Mission in Youngstown, opened Sunday’s event with a prayer.