Recently the Washington Neighborhood experienced senseless violence resulting in the loss of two lives and sending shockwaves of sadness and fear through the community.

On May 21st at 1:45pm, Lorenzo Torres and another man were shot, Lorenzo died from his wounds.

On May 23rd at 4:30pm, Vahid Hosseini was gunned down in the Bank of the West parking lot on his way back to the Willow Market that he and his wife ran for many years. Vahid later died from his wounds.

Both of these tragedies occured in broad daylight, within a short distance from our school, parks, youth centers, library and our most importantly, our homes.

Our community would like to invite you to an opportunity to demonstrate to our children, families and the city as a whole, that we stand for Peace, Dignity and Community.

Please join us!

In Community Spirit,
Autumn Gutierrez

Community leaders and local residents invite you to a Comm-UNITY Walk for Peace

Monday June 16, 2008, 6:00pm
In Front of Biblioteca Latinoamericana
921 S. First St., San Jose, CA 95110

Please join us in an effort to show our community's:Peace, Dignity & Unity in response to the recent senseless violence that’s happened in our neighborhood.

We will begin at the Biblioteca Latinoamericana, walk down Oak Street to Vine, then South of Vine to Willow, a stop at the Willow Market, then walk east to First Street, then back to the Biblioteca.

If you’d like to help make posters for the walk, we will meet at the Biblioteca Community Room at 4:00 pm.

We hope that you can join us. For more information, please contact Mark Lopez @ 408-483-8748 or email: mark@gwna-sj.org