13News reporter Emily Longnecker reports from the downtown Indianapolis canal during a ceremony to honor those lost to gun violence.
INDIANAPOLIS — If you were on the canal downtown on Friday morning, you may have seen dozens of folks wearing orange T-shirts., and Friday was National Gun Violence Awareness Day, which brought dozens to the canal to remember the lives lost in the past year.Their ages and stories were all different.
You’re growing up with the people, and then they’re just no longer here at all,” said 20-year-old Aaron Hampton, who said he recognized some of the names he heard as classmates from school. “He died up here at the canal,” Hampton said, standing next to other young people, all of them from Brightwood Community Center who came to the event aimed at drawing attention to gun violence and those impacted by it.A handful of Democratic lawmakers also joined those gathered at the canal.
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