The Father’s Day celebration had been a neighborhood tradition since the 1960s, and while the community mourned their losses, they also held on to hope.
One elderly woman, her voice steady, spoke of her son and grandson who attended the event but were safe.
“I called him. He said, ‘We down, we OK,’” she recalled.
As she comforted a young child, she embodied the resilience of a community not yet ready to surrender their traditions to violence.
