Oakland’s first homicide victim of 2014 was a boy named Lee Weathersby III. He was shot on New Year’s Eve and died early the next morning. Police say it appears he was not the intended target of the shooting.
Lee would have turned 14 that year. His death hit his middle school, Alliance Academy, hard.
Two months later, on his birthday, 400 fellow students gathered in a circle on the school blacktop with his family and sang “Happy Birthday,” Stevie Wonder-style, to remember him.
Then the middle-schoolers marched around the school and lined up on 98th Avenue. They held up their index fingers and thumbs to make an L, for “Lee” and “love.” They shouted “L’s up!” Then they pointed their fingers down, shouting, “Guns down!”
[For more of this story, written by Zaidee Stavely, go to http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/...-of-oakland-students]
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