If this sounds familiar, it should. Many ‘vigils’ of gang members are interrupted with gun fire over gang issues.
Three men were injured Saturday night in St. Louis as gunfire broke out during a candlelight vigil for an 18-year-old fatally shot by a St. Louis police officer two years earlier.
The men, all in their 20s, were shot as they attended a memorial service for VonDerrit Myers Jr. in the 4200 block of Shaw Boulevard near the Missouri Botanical Garden, according to St. Louis police.
Dozens of people who had gathered for the vigil scattered as the shots were fired, according to a witness.
The first victim, a man in his early 20s, was found at 7:10 p.m. with a wound to his leg. He was taken to a hospital. Shortly thereafter, a second person was found with a graze wound at Shaw and Klemm Street.
You may recall VonDerrit Myers. He actually shot at officers, was found with a gun, bullets he shot were recovered. But his family claimed he had no gun, that he only had a sandwich.
Here’s VonDerrit with three sandwiches, being memorialized immediately after his death by a fellow gang member.
HT: Social Construct