CLEVELAND — A man born and raised in Cleveland’s Buckeye-Shaker neighborhood is not only saddened by deadly gun violence last weekend, but he’s calling on his community to make a difference.
“We’re all one or two people removed from these things happening,” Julian Khan with Neighborhood Connections said.
In just 24 hours, three men in their early 30s died from gunshot wounds.
Cleveland homicide detectives are now investigating what one city leader believes was not random.
Khan spends his days making connections in his neighborhood.
Both on the street and going door to door at homes and businesses.
“Small moments like that help us to renew our vows as residents,” Khan said.
The greater Buckeye neighborhood is his heart and soul, and he says people who live there want the same as anyone else.
“People want safe neighborhoods, they want good schools, they want food access. These sorts of incidents really put us two steps behind the starting blocks,” …