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Cleveland memorial service remembers serial killer's victims
5:27 PM on 11/09/2009
Voices lifted hands and hearts soon followed. For a week in which faith in fellow man has been tested and broken, Sunday the message to the imperial murder victim's families in the pews.
At the memorial service the seven known victims were each remembered and face and name. Their deaths mark the birth of a new, promised movement.
A promise to shed light on Cleveland's dark streets, where women just disappeared and nobody knew or cared. Arms locked local clergymen began the six-block walk to Imperial avenue and east 123rd street.
When Rev. Larry Harris led the 400 strong in prayer at the home where suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell lived and where 11 people likely died. Quita Thompson felt peace for the first in ten days. Thompson babysat the children of murder victim Telacia Fortson.
"It's a blessing to have everyone come together like this. It is. We need more of that. But the unity is not here. Once we disperse now, everybody is going to go his or her own separate ways. And it will take a big tragedy for it to come together again. It should not be like that," said Thompson.
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