Milwaukee surpasses 100 homicides in 2024, church holds murder victim memorial [Video]

Families of murder victims in Milwaukee gathered at a local church to commemorate National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims Wednesday, as the city surpassed 100 homicides in 2024 earlier this week.Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church put on the event for the second year in a row. Around one dozen families who lost loved ones to homicides attended the service, grieving together through speeches and prayer.One of the people impacted by violence is Debra Gillispie. Her son, Kirk Bickham Jr., was shot and killed in 2003. “Kirk had just come home from college. He had graduated, he was out celebrating,” Gillispie said. Bickham Jr. recently accepted a new job and was out with his two friends on the night he was shot, according to Gillispie. “The next day, when you wake up, you think it was a nightmare until you come to the realization that it actually happened. And it begins …