HARTFORD — Surrounded by relatives of the victims of various Hartford shootings over the past two decades, Henrietta Beckman said Saturday that she’d never encountered a gun death as shocking as the loss of little Randell Tarez Jones last weekend.
“In our city, I think that’s the worst one,” Beckman said at a Mothers United Against Violence gathering in the North End.
“A 3-year-old child ... an innocent child ... losing his life,” Beckman said, her voice briefly faltering. “The kids have nothing to do with this madness.”
Beckman and Rev. Henry Brown, the co-founders of Mothers United Against Violence, on Saturday led a caravan slowly through the streets of downtown, the South End and the North End.