THE BELOW EVENT IS CANCELLED DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS AND THE STAY HOME ORDER BY OHIO GOV MIKE DEWINE WE WILL RALLY NEXT YEAR. THANKS TO ALL ANYWAY.....KATHY WRAY COLEMAN, ORGANIZER, IMPERIAL WOMEN COALITION. STAY SAFE!!!

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CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- Activists, family members of the murdered victims, and the community in general will hold a stand-6 feet apart-rally -and- vigil to remember Cleveland East 93rd Street area murder victims Jazmine Trotter, 20, Ashley Leszyeski, 21, Christine Malone, 45, Jameela Hasan, 37 and Alianna DeFreeze, 14 at noon on Saturday, March 28, 2020 at East 93rd Street and Bessemer Avenue in Cleveland, the day seven 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).

Organizers say the rally and vigil will be held in the abandoned field on Bessemer Avenue where the body of Malone was found and is a stand-six-feet-apart, no touching rally and vigil in compliance with cornavirus guidelines.

"We will be there," Angelique Malone, a daughter of victim Christine Malone told head organizer Kathy Wray Coleman, a former educator and Cleveland activist who leads the Imperial Women Coalition, Women's March Cleveland and International Women's Day March Cleveland

The aforementioned were murdered on the city's largely Black east side along a two mile strip from East 93rd Street and Bessemer Avenue up to Harvard Avenue.

The killer or killers remain at large, aside from Aliana's killer.

All of the victims were Black, other than Leszyeski, a west side Cleveland resident who was found dead in a vacant field with a hand cut off.

The bodies of Trotter and DeFreeze were discovered at abandoned homes.

Hasan was stabbed 17 times in an east side apartment.

Alianna's killer, Christopher Whitaker, was convicted of her murder, among other charges, and sentenced to death.

Community activists and the murder victims families want answers as to the city's assertiveness in finding the killer or killers of the other victims and an update from city officials on cold cases regarding murdered and raped women and girls, Black and poor women and girls in particular.

"We want city officials to update us at the rally and vigil on these cold cases that continue to haunt the Black community and we need to be assured that city officials are doing everything possible to seek to eradicate violence against women and girls in this largely Black major American city, particularly Black and poor victims of heinous violence that are sometimes discounted " said Coleman.

Speakers include three of Malone's eight surviving children, activists, victims of violence, any elected officials who show up, and community members,

Hasan was murdered in December of 2012, Malone and Trotter, both in March of 2013, Leszyeski in May of 2013, and DeFreeze, in January of 2017.

Affiliated 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, the Laura Cowan Foundation, Peace in the Hood, Black on Black Crime Inc, Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, the People's Forum, the Task Force for Community Mobilization, Black Empowerment Makes a Difference (BEMAD), and the Carl Stokes Brigade.

.Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog in Ohio and in the Midwest.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.