The shooter may be behind bars, but the community is still healing.
One year after an 18-year-oldmurdered 10 people at a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood on Buffalo’s East Side, residents there say nothing has changed.The day still haunts Grady Lewis. He was standing just across the street when he heard gunfire.Residents in the neighborhood of Cold Springs say they want to see real change as they try to move forward from this tragedy.
Gary Heard, Paula Connors, Johnfredrick Daniels, and Grady Lewis are trying to be the positive change they want to see in their community by providing a space where people can feel safe again, right next door fromTops Friendly Market."I was really in a dark place, going through some rough times, and I'm a veteran," said Daniels."I had to find something, and art like found me.
"We need people that are part of the community or want to be part of it that's going to help and not people foreign or outsiders coming in just to take pictures and then leave or just to talk to the people and try to pour in some empathy and then leave. No, we need the people that's going to be there," said Daniels.
"I think what could be helpful is if they would look for grass-roots opportunities, really coming into the neighborhood, just like I did, and asking, what do you need? Ask the people, and then respond," said Connors.
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