Pictured is Diane Madison
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com-CLEVELAND, Ohio –CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Cleveland community, led by activists' groups Black on Black Crime Inc and Imperial Women Coalition, will hold a vigil today, Thursday, June 27, 2019, at 6 pm at 19612 Chickasaw Avenue on Cleveland's east side in front of the home where serial killer Michael Madison's mother was stabbed to death on June 22 to remember the her. CLICK HERE TO READ OUR FULL COVERAGE ON THE MURDER OF DIANE MADISON (Call Black on Black Crime Inc at (216) 253-4070 or Imperial Women Coalition at (216) 659-0473 for more information)
Activists said that the victim, 67-year-old Diane Madison, and not her son, is the focus of the vigil.
"We invite the community to join us as we remember Ms. Madison and all women like her who have been unmercifully murdered,": said Art McKoy of Black on Black Crime Inc.
Activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads the Imperial Women Coalition and led rallies relative to the murders of his victims, said the murder of Diane Madison is "just another reminder that violence against women and girls remains an epidemic locally, statewide and nationally, and as the 2020 election nears not one presidential candidate has put forth a proposal to address this growing problem."
Coleman said the issue is more alarming as Black women are three times more likely to be murdered than their White counterparts.
The Imperial Women Coalition is a women's rights organization founded in 2009 around the murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland by serial killer and death row inmate Anthony Sowell.
The older Madison was killed and three children injured at the home early Saturday morning.
The 18 year-old suspect, Jalen Plummer, is in custody in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Cleveland on a $2 million bond after being indicted Monday by a Cuyahoga County grand jury on one count of aggravated murder of Diane Madison and four counts of felonious assault for allegedly stabbing the older Madison and the three children at issue. His arraignment is pending.
He is Diane Madison's grandson, police said.
Cleveland police found Diane Madison dead when responding at the 19000 block of Chickasaw Avenue at about 12:am Saturday and three children injured, a 12-year-old boy and two 10-year-old girls, all of them allegedly stabbed, and all three of whom were taken to Rainbow Babies and Children Hospital for observation, police said.
Police said Plummer broke into the home, stabbed Diane Madison in her bedroom, and then attacked the three children in a bedroom while they were asleep, the two girls getting away and running to a neighbors house, and the boy hiding inside the home.
One of the wounded girls is purportedly the daughter of Michael Madison, police said,
The suspect, who allegedly once lived in his grandmother's home, was found hiding in the shower when police arrived at the scene, authorities said Saturday.
Madison's victims were Angela Deskins, 38 , Shetisha Sheeley, 28, and Shirellda Terry, 18, all of Cleveland,
The serial killer, who carried out the murders in the neighboring impoverished city of East Cleveland, sits on death row as he appeals his convictions and death sentence, and his mother are Black, as were his murder victims.
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