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Violence prevention efforts following Pittsburgh Airbnb shooting

Cathy Welsh lost her son Jeremy to gun violence in 2017 and has been fighting to stop it in her Woodland Hills community ever since.

Violence prevention efforts following Pittsburgh Airbnb shooting

Cathy Welsh lost her son Jeremy to gun violence in 2017 and has been fighting to stop it in her Woodland Hills community ever since.

PAIN OF LOSING A CHILD TO GUN VIOLENCE. REPORTER: CATHY WELSH LOST RHE SON JEREMY TO GUN VIOLENCE IN 2017 AND HAS BEEN FIGHTING TO STOP IT EVERY SINCE. -- EVER SINCE. NOW LEARNING TWO TEENAGERS WEER KILLED THIS PAST WEENDKE, SHE SAYS IS HEARTBREAKING. >> THERE IS NO GOING BACK FROM IT. IT IS FOREVER. IT LASTS WAY LONGER THAN A FUNERAL. WAY LONGER THAN A BALLOON RAISE. IT LASTS FOREVER. IT DOES NOT GET EASIER. EITHER YOU MAKE THE SPACE FOR IT OR YOU ARE STUCK IN IT. REPORTER: CATHY WELSH SAID SHE’S WORKED FOR YEARS WORKING ON WAYS TO STOP THE VIOLENCE. KNOWING THAT TWO MORE FAMILIES HA TVEO COPE WITH THIS IS PAINFUL. WELSH SAYS SHE’S HURTING FOR THE FAMILIES OF IDJAEN BROWN AND MATTHEW STEFFY-ROSS. >> JAIDEN LOST HIS FATHER A FEW YEARS AGO TO HEALTH REASONS. IT’S BEEN HDAR ON HIS MOTHER, HE HAS BEEN HER EVERYTHG.IN I’M SO CONRNCEED. MATTHEW, THE SAME THING, HE WAS JUST GETTING HIS BEARINGS. JUST LEARNING HOW TO LIVE WITH TRAUMA AND GRIEF. FOR HIM TO HAVE HIS LIFE TAKEN, IT IS LITERALLY BEYOND WORDS. IT HASUR O COMMUNITY OF VIOLENCE DISRUPTORS AND HEALERS AND COMMUNITY-BADSE ORGANIZATNSIO LITERALLY AT A LOSS RIGHT NOW, ABSORBING TSHI TO FIND OUT HOW WE CAN BUILD HOPE BACP.KU REPORTER: WELSH TELLS ME THEY ARE HOLDING A MEETING TOMO
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Violence prevention efforts following Pittsburgh Airbnb shooting

Cathy Welsh lost her son Jeremy to gun violence in 2017 and has been fighting to stop it in her Woodland Hills community ever since.

Cathy Welsh lost her son Jeremy to gun violence in 2017 and has been fighting to stop it in her Woodland Hills community ever since. Welsh said hearing that two teenagers lost their lives on Sunday has been heartbreaking. Watch the full story in the video player above. "There's no going back from it. It's so forever and it lasts way longer than the funeral, way longer than the balloon release. It literally lasts forever, it doesn't get easier either you make the space for it or you're stuck in it," Welsh said. Welsh said she has spent the past five years working on ways to stop the violence. She said knowing two more families have to cope with the loss is painful. She said she is hurting for the families of both Jaiden Brown and Mathew Steffy-Ross. "Jaiden lost his family a few years ago to health reasons and it's been her and Jaiden all these years, he was her everything," Welsh said. "And I'm just so concerned, I'm so concerned and Mathew same thing, he was just getting his bearings from losing his own mother and just learning how to live with trauma and grief. And for him to have his life taken, it's literally beyond words. I think it has our community of violence disruptors and healers and community-based organizations literally at a loss right now. Just absorbing this and finding out how we are going to build hope back."Welsh said the Greater Valley Coalition Against violence will hold a meeting Tuesday night to discuss what they can do locally and said they are going to Harrisburg later this month to ask for funding to help.

Cathy Welsh lost her son Jeremy to gun violence in 2017 and has been fighting to stop it in her Woodland Hills community ever since.

Welsh said hearing that two teenagers lost their lives on Sunday has been heartbreaking.

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Watch the full story in the video player above.

"There's no going back from it. It's so forever and it lasts way longer than the funeral, way longer than the balloon release. It literally lasts forever, it doesn't get easier either you make the space for it or you're stuck in it," Welsh said.

Welsh said she has spent the past five years working on ways to stop the violence. She said knowing two more families have to cope with the loss is painful. She said she is hurting for the families of both Jaiden Brown and Mathew Steffy-Ross.

"Jaiden lost his family a few years ago to health reasons and it's been her and Jaiden all these years, he was her everything," Welsh said. "And I'm just so concerned, I'm so concerned and Mathew same thing, he was just getting his bearings from losing his own mother and just learning how to live with trauma and grief. And for him to have his life taken, it's literally beyond words. I think it has our community of violence disruptors and healers and community-based organizations literally at a loss right now. Just absorbing this and finding out how we are going to build hope back."

Welsh said the Greater Valley Coalition Against violence will hold a meeting Tuesday night to discuss what they can do locally and said they are going to Harrisburg later this month to ask for funding to help.