Parents Of San Francisco Homicide Victims Honor Their Children

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – It was another tough Mother's Day for a group of moms outside San Francisco City Hall on Sunday as they remembered their sons and daughters, who were victims of homicides.

The annual Stop the Violence rally is held in hopes that people will remember homicides in San Francisco that have not been solved.

The event came just a few days after San Francisco police arrested several suspects in the shooting death of a German tourist last year.

KCBS' Bob Melrose Reports:

Mattie Scott, whose son George was gunned down in July of 1996, said she is hoping that case will be reopened.

"We're angry as most of us here have lost our children, some just in the last year. They put all the energy and effort into finding the killer of the tourist that was killed," Scott said. "We're glad they got those killers off the street. However, what about our children? We're residents here, we live here, we work here and pay taxes here."

Scott said this is the ninth year they have gathered in front of City Hall on Mother's Day and even as time goes by, the healing process is still ongoing.

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