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Photo gallery: ‘Taking a stand against gun violence’ effort brings rally to Pittsburgh

Shane Dunlap
By Shane Dunlap
1 Min Read • June 3, 2023 | 3 years Ago
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Andrew Volz, left, and his mother, Christian Volz, right, march through Allegheny Commons Park with about 100 participants protesting gun violence on Friday, June 2, 2023 during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side. Andrew Volz said he was a patient of Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, and was wearing a t-shirt honoring the Tree of Life congregation member who was killed in 2018.
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Dom P. Brown, left, of Pittsburgh, is hugged by supporters after delivering an impassioned speech about her experience losing her sons to gun violence on Friday, June 2, 2023 during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side.
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Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Austin Davis gives a speech Friday, June 2, 2023 during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side.
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Carolyn Ban, right, chair of the steering committee for Squirrel Hill Stands Against Gun Violence, an organization formed after the 2018 Tree of Life mass shooting, speaks with Lieutenant Governor Austin Davis as he arrives Friday, June 2, 2023 during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side.
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U.S Rep. Summer Lee gives a speech against gun violence on Friday, June 2, 2023 during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side.
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Dom P. Brown, of Pittsburgh, listens to speakers Friday, June 2, 2023 during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side. Brown lost her 18 year-old son, Jo’Markius Fuller, to gun violence in East Hills in 2018. One year later, her youngest son, at ten years old, took his own life over the grief of losing his older brother.
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A heart shaped decoration is marked with the name of Dom Brown’s son, Jo’Markius T. Fuller, who was killed by gun violence in 2018, is seen with other memorials hanging on a fence Friday, June 2, 2023 during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side.
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Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Austin Davis speaks with Cathy Welsh, left, of Turtle Creek, as he arrives Friday, June 2, 2023 at Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side. Welsh is involved in H.O.O.P, an organization formed by parents from Woodland Hills High School, who have decided to take a stand against gun violence in their school district.
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Rabbi Jonathan Perlman, with New Light Congregation, one of the congregations attacked in the Tree of Life mass shooting, gives a speech against gun violence, and specifically gun violence committed by young children, to a crowd gathered Friday, June 2, 2023 during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side.
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Rev. Brenda Gregg, of Destiny of Faith Church, leads a peace march Friday, June 2, 2023 during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace event for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side.
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Dom P. Brown, of Pittsburgh, left, standing next to Andrew Volz, right, of Pittsburgh, participate during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on Friday, June 2, 2023 on the North Side. Volz was a patient of Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, one of the congregation members who was killed in the Tree of Life mass shooting in 2018 and was wearing a t-shirt depicting Dr. Rabinowitz. Brown lost her 18 year-old son, Jo’Markius T. Fuller, to gun violence in East Hills in 2018, and her youngest son to suicide a year later.
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Marchers walk through Allegheny Commons Park on Friday, June 2, 2023 during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side.
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U.S Rep. Summer Lee gives a speech against gun violence on Friday, June 2, 2023 during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side.
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Marchers protest against gun violence on Friday, June 2, 2023 during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side.
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Marchers hold signs Friday, June 2, 2023 during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side.
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Dom P. Brown, of Pittsburgh, who lost her 18 year-old son to gun violence in 2018, lets out a howl of pain while giving an impassioned speech detailing her grief over losing her older son, and her youngest son one year later, on Friday, June 2, 2023 during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side.

More than 100 people gathered Friday in Pittsburgh to kick off Wear Orange Weekend, a national gun violence awareness effort.

The gathering began in Allegheny Commons Park on Pittsburgh’s North Side and concluded with a peace march.

Rabbi Jonathan Perlman of New Light Congregation was among the featured speakers.Perlman was inside the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill when a gunman opened fire on Oct. 27, 2018, killing 11 people during worship services.

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey, Lt. Gov. Austin Davis and U.S. Rep. Summer Lee attended.

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U.S Rep. Summer Lee gives a speech against gun violence on Friday, June 2, 2023 during Pittsburgh’s Wear Orange peace march for National Gun Violence Awareness Day on the North Side.

The “Wear Orange Weekend” in Pittsburgh is one of several similar events happening across the country this weekend intended to kick off June as National Gun Violence Awareness Month.

Squirrel Hill Stands Against Gun Violence, CeaseFirePA and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America hosted the Pittsburgh event.

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Shane Dunlap is a TribLive photographer covering Westmoreland and Allegheny counties. He grew up in the Ohio Valley near Pittsburgh and has worked for newspapers as far away as Fayetteville, N.C., where he covered the U.S. Army at Fort Liberty. He can be reached at sdunlap@triblive.com.

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