By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers (www.clevelandurbannews.com). Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473
CLEVELAND, Ohio- The family and friends of slain 27-year-old Daniel Ficker, who left behind two young children and a fiance, will host a fundraiser for his children and a memorial to remember him as the second anniversary of his July 4, 2011 death by Cleveland police that occurred outside of his home in Parma, Oh. nears.
Parma is a middle-class suburb of Cuyahoga County that is some 15 miles south of Cleveland.
The event will be held on Sunday, June 30, 2013 at Coe Lake behind Berea Commons from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm in Berea, Ohio, a suburb some 20 miles south of Cleveland.
Tickets for the fundraiser for Ficker's two small children are $10 and the Breakfast Club Band will perform. Children get in free, organizers told Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black newspaper.
For more information contact Ficker's mother, Bernadette Rolen, by phone at 1-440-773-6103 or by email at bern316@cox.net For donations in general go to www.danficker143.com .
Rolen said that the memorial is just that, a memorial fundraiser to raise money for Ficker's children and to remember her son, one of two children, she said. She said that the event is not a rally and that her grandchildren by Daniel Ficker are what friends and other family members said that they are hosting the event for.
"The memorial is to remember Dan and to raise money for his two children," said Rolen.
Ficker died on the July 4th holiday 2 years ago following an attack by police after two Cleveland policeman waited outside of his Parma home on what they said later to authorities was a personal matter.
No criminal charges were pending, no warrant for his arrest existed, and no official report on any altercation or alleged crime to Cleveland police had been made, an investigation by Cleveland Urban News.Com reveals.
The City of Cleveland's Office of Professional Standards found wrongdoing by police more than a year ago, but city officials have yet to act on the recommendation for discipline.
Meanwhile, Ficker's family, including his fiance, his parents and his two children, continue to grieve the loss of a loved one
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