CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community activists, community members and family and friends of 6-year-old Lyric Melodi Lawson, who died from a gunshot wound to the head Saturday morning while sleeping in her bed at 1388 E. 71st Street and St Clair Ave in the South Collinwood Neighborhood on Cleveland's largely Black east side, will hold a vigil and anti- gun violence march today, Oct 7, 2019 at 5pm beginning at Cleveland Metropolitan School District's Hannah Gibbons-STEM School where the Black girl attended.

"We urge everybody to attend this vigil and march today," said longtime Cleveland activist Art McKoy of Black on Black Crime. "If you are truly tired of our children being murdered unmercifully, please join us for this necessary gathering."

Participants will march at 5:30 pm from the elementary school to the scene of the crime blocks away at East 71st Street and St Clair Ave, organizers said.

A first grader, Lyric died Saturday at University Hospitals following the shooting incident, which occurred early that morning at 1 am via a drive-by shooting where 28 shots were fired into the home, the same home in which a man was shot and killed last month.

The suspect or suspects remain at large.

Witnesses told police a car was seen leaving the scene of the shooting last week but gave no description other than it was dark-colored car, authorities said .

Mayor Jackson and members of city council, led by Ward 10 Councilman Anthony Hairston, whose ward is where the incident occurred, held a press conference on the steps of City Hall in response to the tragic killing to denounce gun violence.

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