St. Paul community leaders inviting public to summit on reducing gun violence
It's slated for 6 p.m. Thursday.
St. Paul religious and civil rights leaders are inviting the public to a Thursday night summit about reducing gun violence.
“We need to talk so that we can figure out ways that we can better serve our communities, our partners, our teams, our neighborhoods,” said the Rev. Richard Pittman Sr., president of the NAACP of Minnesota and the Dakotas.
The discussion, which is aimed toward finding solutions, is hosted by the NAACP, the African American Leadership Council and the St. Paul Black Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance.
The groups’ leaders joined law enforcement and the St. Paul mayor in November, after the city saw nine homicides in the preceding two months, and they all called for anyone with information about people illegally carrying guns to come forward.
There have been 32 homicides in St. Paul this year, one more than there were at this time last year. Fewer people have been injured by gunfire — there have been 101 people shot, compared with 116 during the same period last year, according to St. Paul Police Department data.
The summit is 6 p.m. Thursday at Arlington Hills Lutheran Church, 1115 Greenbrier St. in St. Paul.
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