Pictured is 14-year-old Cleveland murder victim Alianna DeFreeze
THANKS TO THE MEDIA AND ALL WHO PARTICIPATED AS TO THE 6TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CLEVELAND EAST 93RD STREET SERIAL MURDERS, HELD ON THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2019 AT THE INTERSECTION OF EAST 93RD STREET AND BESSEMER AVENUE IN CLEVELAND. BY: IMPERIAL WOMEN COALITION, ORGANIZER KATHY WRAY COLEMAN. TEL (216) 659-0473.
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CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Led by the Imperial Women Coalition and Women's March Cleveland, community activists, family members of the murdered victims and the community in general will remember Cleveland East 93rd Street area murder victims Jazmine Trotter, Ashley Leszyeski, Christine Malone, Jameela Hasan, and Alianna DeFreeze during a rally and vigil at 5 pm on Thursday, March 28, 2018 at East 93rd Street and Bessemer Avenue in Cleveland, the day six years ago the dead body of Christine Malone was found at Bessemer and East 93rd Street in a vacant field. (For more information contact the Cleveland-based Imperialwomencoalition.com Tel: (216) 659-0473 Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com).
Domestic violence survivor Laura Cowan, also a CNN Hero, will moderate the event
Speakers include community activists, and three of Malone's
grown children.
"Our family will continue to participate in rallies to remember the victims and to work to bring their killer or killers to justice and we thank Kathy Wray Coleman and other community activists, and the media, for keeping this issue alive," said Angelique Malone, a daughter of murder victim Christine Malone, who left behind eight grown children.
Angelique Malone said "we want our mother's killer found and brought to justice."
"We call for the killer of these women, all but one of the women of whom are Black, to step forward and we need for local, county and state and national policy makers and others to deal with this growing epidemic of heinous violence against Black women and girls and other women of Cleveland," said longtime community activist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition who has organized every anniversary rally since 2014, and who a key organizer of Women's March Cleveland, International Women's Day March Cleveland.
Hasan, 37, was murdered in December of 2012, Malone, 45, and Trotter, 20, both in March of 2013, Leszyeski, 21, in May of 2013, and DeFreeze, a teenager, in January of 2017.
They were murdered on the city's largely Black east side along a two mile strip near East 93rd Street and Bessemer Avenue up to Harvard Avenue.
All five were Black accept Leszyeski, who resided on the city's West Side, and whose body was discovered in a vacant field with her hand cut off.
Their killer or killers, aside from Alianna, 14, whose killer, Christopher Whitaker, was convicted of her murder and sentenced to death this time last year by Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Judge Carolyn Friedland, remains at large.
Affiliated greater Cleveland activist groups include Imperial Women Coalition, Women's March Cleveland, International Women's Day March Cleveland,Clevelandurbannews.com, Black Man's Army, Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Find Our Children-The Missing- Ebony Alert, Rebuilding Our Village and Protecting Our Children's Safety, Peace in the Hood, Black on Black Crime Inc, Black Man's Army, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, the People's Forum, the Task Force for Community Mobilization, and the Carl Stokes Brigade.
The bodies of Trotter and DeFreeze were discovered at abandoned homes.
Hasan was stabbed 17 times in an east side apartment.
Community activists and the murder victims families want answers as to the city's assertiveness, or lack thereof, in finding the killer or killers and an update from city officials on cold cases regarding murdered and raped women and girls, Black and poor women and girls in particular.
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Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
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