Community leaders are planning a Moreno Valley peace march and rally later this month in the wake of recent shootings in the city of more than 200,000 residents.
The march and rally is scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Lakeshore Village Marketplace, a shopping center in north Moreno Valley’s Sunnymead Ranch neighborhood, according to Moreno Valley resident Inetta Horsley, who is helping to organize the event.
Horsley said more than 30 civic leaders — clergy, educators, city officials and local NAACP representatives — met recently and decided to hold a rally in a public plea to end the violence.
“We want to bring awareness in Moreno Valley to what’s going on, and we want to stop the violence,” Horsley said.
The shopping center along Sunnymead Ranch Parkway has been the site of some of the recent violence, including the slayings of brothers Elijah Asencio, 20, and Jeremiah Asencio, 17. The Moreno Valley brothers were shot and killed in the parking lot of the Jack in the Box restaurant at the center on March 7.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, which provides police protection in Moreno Valley under a contract with the city, confirmed in an email Tuesday, April 3, that no arrests have been made in connection with the brothers’ deaths. And no new information about the case was available.
For information about the march and rally, people may call Horsley at 951-660-9992 or Patsy Brown at 951-961-0594.
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