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Nearly 200 attend vigil against gun violence

Nearly 200 people gathered at Victor Scott Primary School field last night to remember shooting victim Kimwandae Walker, and take a stand against gun violence.Mr Walker was fatally shot on the field while flying his kite with his children a year ago yesterday.The candlelight vigil was organised by the family of murder victim, Colford Ferguson. The 29-year-old was shot dead as he worked at a house in Mangrove Bay, Somerset, on February 4.Scott Smith said he was tired of seeing young black men in the community gunned down.Referring to Thursday's murder of footballer Randy Robinson, he said: “Now we have another one to bury in a few days.“I'm tired of looking the eyes of mothers who are broken, saying they have taken my only son.”Carlton Simmons from community group Youth on the Move said he was concerned that Bermuda wasn't more vocal about the violence now happening in the community.“We spend more energy arguing about land that don't belong to us instead of our children. These young men are paying a debt that us as a country have run up,” he said.Danny Crockwell, the father of murder victim Shaki Crockwell, said he still mourned for his son, shot to death in 2007.“I don't sleep because I don't know who killed him,” he said. “This has got to stop. How many black people have to die?“All I want to know is who killed him and what for.”Another vigil is planned tonight at Woody's restaurant in Somerset, where Freddy Maybury was fatally shot last year.