Yesterday at Tampa City Council, elected officials resoundingly heard a community tell it that council member Gwen Henderson's proposal to close Ybor City at 1 a.m. would only hurt the historic district and not solve the kind of violence that erupted last weekend when two people were killed during an early morning shooting on Seventh Avenue.
In the hours before the council meeting, Moms Demand Action organized a vigil and march through Ybor City. Family of one of the victims, 20-year-old Harrison Boonstoppel, expressed sympathy for the family of the other 14-year-old Elijah Wilson, and called for an end to gun violence.
WLRN said Tampa’s Democratic State Rep. Dianne Hart also expressed her condolences and added that last Sunday’s tragedy is not the only shooting to care about.
“Every single week in my district I'm losing a young person,” Hart said. “Gun violence is taking over East Tampa, West Tampa and out in Suitcase City.”
