CHARLOTTE, N.C. — "When I came, he was lying like this and the shot came from here,” Patsy Martin said as she stood on the stairs where she had found her dying son.
"All mothers … all mothers should stand together," she said.
Ronald Martin had grown up in Grier Heights. He'd been on the streets and found trouble. On Monday morning, trouble found him.
Four days after he was shot and killed, police have not made any arrests.
But they believe, as does Patsy Martin, that someone in the community knows what happened.
But the silence is deafening. So on Friday evening, they will be fighting silence with silence.
“Love thy neighbor, we are our brother's keeper," said Judy Williams, reading sign after sign as she pulled them out of the trunk of her car.
As the leader of Mothers of Murdered Offspring, she's led many loud and tearful marches. But Friday night, they will take a different approach and hold a silent march where the signs will do the talking.
“No, it won't be loud. It'll be silent, because that's what's going on. Lives are being taken very silently and no one's saying anything," Williams said.