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ANNUAL VIGIL

Our Annual Community Vigil offers a time for all of Durham to honor lives taken by violence.
To connect with our ministry of vigil, grief support, and companionship, 
please contact our Vigil & Community Minister, Reverend Annette Love: 
(919) 746-6751 or email [email protected].
Join us to honor and remember 50 lives.

All taken from us by violence in Durham County during 2022. Over 90% ended by gunshot wounds. Each a tragic reminder of more than 1000 lives in 31 years, similarly snatched away and still powerfully missed. Every one an enduring, immeasurable loss to our community.

Join us Saturday, October 14 at 10:00 am on the grounds of Elizabeth Street UMC (1209 N. Elizabeth Street) for a ritual of sacred attention to these named, loved ones. For the 31st time, we offer this Annual Vigil Against Violence as a space to unite in public mourning for the inequitable human toll of our violence. 
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We gather as people bearing the gifts of a body and a name. We gather as neighbors mindful of the violence in our systems and our souls. We gather as fragile, forgetful creatures—in the light of a Love that will not let any one life go.

​We gather in love and lament for...
Jalen Ramon Mills (19 yrs)
Tony Rashawn Smith Jr. (21 yrs)
Stephanie Wilson (28 yrs)
Charles Piquet (51 yrs)
Raishawn Jones (38 yrs)
Tony Anthony Person (38 yrs)
Aaron Michael Bailey (25 yrs)
Elijah Hosea Everett (25 yrs)
Israel Njuguna (21 yrs)
Al’damon Boykin (38 yrs)
Shawn Burton (44 yrs)
William Damontez Green (27 yrs)
Janavious Tate (17 yrs)
Hironori James Sr. (62 yrs)
Frankie Delano Washington (61 yrs)
Emily Argueta Montes de Oca (22 yrs)
Daniel Slack (22 yrs)
Tylen Wesley Baldwin (21 yrs)
Jose Cabrera (19 yrs)
Karla Jaramillo Noyola (31 yrs)
Raheem Sharaf Clark, Jr. (21 yrs)
Bradley Terrell Clay (36 yrs)
Jabari Eugene Williams (21 yrs)
Kenneth Hawley, Jr. (35 yrs)
Jeremiah Tobias Dixon (19 yrs)
Vertical Divider
Yazmine Noel McDougald (15 yrs)
Shyhiem Marquis McCaskill (22 yrs)
JaMarr Antwan Parker (31 yrs)
Rodney Blake Burnett (30 yrs)
Derek Rene Ortiz (21 yrs)
Brian Loughery Davis (51 yrs)
Derek Ross Sterling (41 yrs)
Wahid Downey (18 yrs)
Marcus Bradley Ortega-Burch (20 yrs)
Anthony Giles (23 yrs)
Jivon Terrence Cherry (39 yrs)
Guadalupe Ordonez Alejandro (23 yrs)
Quaron Zaffa (18 yrs)
ReShaun Marshall Cates (34 yrs)
Karizma Mebane (21 yrs)
June Onkundi (44 yrs)
Julie Pruner Lindsey (34 yrs)
Michael Leon Spears Jr. (21 yrs)
DeMario Montez Metts (35 yrs)
Reginald Cecil Parker (16 yrs)
Tyler Austin Young (25 yrs)
Alexis Hernandez Nunez (16 yrs)
Terrance Donta Brown (44 yrs)
Denis Alen Sosa-Gomez (45 yrs)
Ainzargul Totakhil (40 yrs)
RCND is grateful for every opportunity to come alongside neighbors grieving loved ones taken by violence. To connect with our ministry of vigil, grief support, and companionship, contact our Vigil & Community Minister Rev. Annette Love (919) 746-6751 or email [email protected].
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