A vigil service to help the community heal from a tragedy at an MLK event

FORT PIERCE, Florida. Residents of Fort Pierce are trying to recover from the tragedy on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which resulted in the death of one woman.

This includes a 10 a.m. Saturday vigil service at Ealous Ellis Park, the site of the Monday night shooting.

“After such a tragic incident, we need our strength and also the confidence to return to society and not be afraid,” said Sharon Brown, co-pastor of First Gospel Deliverance Tabernacle Church. “We want people to know that this is a beautiful city and we are fighting to restore peace.”

Brown says she was at the MLK parade on Monday but left before the shooting, where eight people were shot dead, one of whom died in the shootout.

“I was shocked because the day went by, it was dark, and now I just assume everything went well, we had the whole day and no problems,” Brown said.

Brown organized a vigil to be held on Saturday and was busy recruiting community leaders and other pastors to help the community heal through the power of prayer.

“Prayer heals prayer ups, prayer releases, and so when we pray, we trust that God will work for people of every kind,” Brown said. “We are uniting to restore peace, we have had such incidents. and it’s time to stop, someone has to stand up and say, “Enough is enough.”

Brown hopes law enforcement will also be in attendance to forge closer ties with people in the community as they recover from Monday’s tragedy.

“There are so many people looking at law enforcement the wrong way and we need them and they need us so it would be a unification and coming to a decision where we can sit down and put our ideas together and save this city. “, Brown said.

Brown says she is working on planning for future meetings with local leaders and law enforcement to prevent future crime at Fort Pierce and how to keep youth on track.

“We’re coming together, putting our heads and our ideas together, and trying to make a difference,” Brown said. “I do believe that the problem comes from bad parenting and sometimes it also comes from the environment and things that kids get into with other kids like gang violence.”

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