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Scores of New Yorkers gathered outside Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Friday for the first “National Day of Remembrance for Gun-Related Homicide Victims” vigil — mourning those killed at the hands of armed criminals and demanding an end to the bloodshed.

Scores of New Yorkers gathered outside Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Friday for the first “National Day of Remembrance for Gun-Related Homicide Victims” vigil — mourning those killed at the hands of armed criminals and demanding an end to the bloodshed.

Family members touched by gun violence gathered at the Clarendon Road Church in Brooklyn to comfort each other and look for ways to end the brutality. Jim Dolan has more.

FLATLANDS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- The parents of a teacher's aide who was shot and killed in Brooklyn have created a nonprofit in his memory.

Parents of teacher's aide fatally shot in Brooklyn create nonprofit in his memory

The event began with an emotional gathering on Church Avenue where the names of mothers of sons killed by gun violence were read aloud.