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Justice for Sarah Roberts
We wanted to revisit the story of Sarah Roberts, Sarah was a young mother from Kerman, CA and the victim of a random act of violence on New Year’s Eve 2011. Over six months have gone by without any arrests and leads are few and far between. Police believe she was the unintended victim, caught in the crossfire of a nearby shooting in Fresno, CA.
As with many other crimes this case remains unsolved due to of a lack of witnesses willing to come forward with information. Valley Crime Stoppers has issued a $2000 reward for information leading to an arrest in this case. Anyone with information is urged to call Valley Crime Stoppers at 559-498-STOP (7867) or Detective Chris Serrano at 559-621-2452.
This crime is a reminder that anyone can be a target, there are far too many innocent victims to turn a blind eye. It is of the utmost importance to report any suspicious activity in your neighborhood. Many people these days allow apathy to take over and adopt the “I just don’t want to get involved” mentality. It is sad and dangerous, reporting a possible crime before it happens could mean the difference between life and death.
The habit of reporting crime and suspicious activity needs to be ingrained into the hearts and minds of our communities. Don’t ever hesitate to call police if you think someone needs help and make an effort to find out the non-emergency numbers for your local law enforcement officials as well. These elements are key in achieving peaceful communities
for you and your families.
Please Read-Your Help Is Needed!
Together Against Violence is a public service campaign, our goal is to promote a pro-active approach to stopping violence in our communities.
This campaign is committed to raising awareness about the impact violence has on young people as well as their families. We are striving to promote peaceful and safe communities as well as forming relationships with other public service entities aimed at stopping violent crime and assisting victims of violent crime.
- Marcus and His Mom
Inspired by a profound tragedy, our organization was founded in memory of Marcus Lynn Ochoa Snowden, affectionately known as “D-bo”.
Marcus Lynn Snowden was taken from us on October 22nd, 2011 in a horrific act of violence. In his 18 years on this earth Marcus touched many people with his craziness, kindness and willingness to protect others. We want to remember him and the positive things he did in his life and for the tremendous amount of love he gave to his family and friends.
As of today there have been two individuals arrested for this crime, even so there are still others who need to be brought to justice. We hope and pray that additional arrests will be made and that people in the community of Kerman, CA who may know information about this case will step forward and communicate with law enforcement.
How can you as concerned members of the community help our cause? By sharing our story, we need others to help get the word out by reminding people that this investigation is still ongoing and leads are needed to be able to put everyone involved in this crime behind bars.
Key pieces of information about the events that happened the early morning hours of October 22nd, 2011 are vital; information consisting of phone messages, text messages and especially clear and concise eyewitness accounts are crucial pieces of evidence necessary for making additional arrests. Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office at (559) 488-3111.
By not cooperating with law enforcement you are doing Marcus as well as your entire community, a terrible injustice.
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Sheriff pleas for help in fatal Kerman stabbing
A local news story from Thursday, December 15, 2011.
Reported By ABC 30 KFSN-TV Fresno
A Family's Public Plea For Help
A fAMiLy’s pLeA
Sheriff pleas for help in fatal Kerman stabbing
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=8468083
Marcus Lynn Snowden
JuStiCe fOr d-Bo!
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- Raising Awareness
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- Hope is on the Horizon
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- Friends Forever – Luv You Big Bro!
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- United
Over the course of three weeks, nearly 1500 fliers were posted up around the town of Kerman, CA and distributed to local businesses and organizations in an effort to raise awareness about the case being unsolved. We also felt it necessary to try to reach out to individuals who may have had information about the case and give them a push in the direction of law enforcement. We pledged to ourselves that we would not rest until there was a break in the case; we were and still are in “Fight Mode!”
This event took place on Dec 11, 2011:
Friends Forever
Together Against Violence wants JUSTICE for Lynn D-bo Snowden, we will be passing out flyers tomorrow urging potential witnesses to contact the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office. If you would like to help, please meet us at 1:00pm at the old Rite Aid parking lot off of Hwy 180 and Madera Ave in Kerman. We need to bring awareness to the fact that no one has been arrested for this crime. Any help would be greatly appreciated; we encourage you to pass the word along to all your friends. We will also be selling D-bo bracelets for $1 for those of you wanting to pay tribute to him. If you have any questions feel free to comment or send us a message.
Thank you to everyone for doing such an awesome job today!!! The Justice for D-bo rally was a success; it was great to see D-bo’s friends and family showing their support and love for D-bo. We also wanted to give a big thanks to Valley Food Super Center in Kerman for letting us post up in their parking lot today.
Together Against Violence 