Family of couple found dead in Wylam calls for justice after case still unsolved

WELL, TONIGHT, DOZENS OF PEOPLE MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE IN OUR AREA IN HONOR OF A COUPLE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES TO IT. JUST DAYS BEFORE VALENTINE’S DAY OR ON VALENTINE’S DAY, RATHER. �� 13. DARREN LEWELLEN ATTENDED THE VIGIL IN THEIR HONOR TODAY. AND AARON, THOSE OUT THERE WERE HOPING FOR ANSWERS AND PEACE IN THE CITY TONIGHT. YEAH. GLADYS TONIGHT AT THE VIGIL, I TALKED TO CHRISTIAN NORRIS’S COUSIN, WHO SAYS THAT THE FAMILY IS STILL GRIEVING HIM AND ANGELIA WEBSTER’S LIVES. NOW THAT NO ONE HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO THEIR DEATHS. BUT THEY’RE FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE. NOT JUST FOR THEM, BUT FOR ANYONE ELSE WHOSE CASES IS STILL UNSOLVED. IN THE MIDST OF HER GRIEF. GOD WOULD JUST CALLING ON YOU RIGHT NOW. GOD, WE ARE CRYING NOW. BUT IT COULD BE YOUR FAMILY CRYING TOMORROW. SHARITA WILSON CLARK IS FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE, NOT ONLY FOR HER FAMILY, BUT FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE LOST A LOVED ONE TO GUN VIOLENCE. AND I SAY, STOP. YOU SAY VIOLENCE. STOP THE VIOLENCE, STOP THE VIOLENCE. MY BROTHER WAS MURDERED BACK IN ZERO EIGHT AND THEY STILL HAVE NOT FOUND THE PERSON THAT DID THAT. NOT ONLY JUST HIM, IT WAS HIM AND SOMEONE ELSE IN THE CAR WITH HIM. WILSON’S COUSIN, CHRISTIAN NORRIS AND HIS GIRLFRIEND WERE FOUND DEAD THE SAME WAY. SO TWO DEAD BODIES IN A CAR AND. AND NOW, 16 YEARS LATER, HERE IT IS AGAIN, HAS HAPPENED IN OUR FAMILY. THE PAIN OF THE COUPLE LOSING THEIR LIVES WHILE THOSE RESPONSIBLE STILL GET TO LIVE AND ARE NOT BEHIND BARS YET, DOESN’T SIT RIGHT WITH WILSON. PEOPLE ARE VICIOUS. WE NEED TO GET THEM OFF THE STREET. THOUGH WE DO FORGIVE OF WHO DID THESE MURDERS. THEY NEED TO BE OFF THE STREET JUST A FEW DAYS SHY OF IT BEING A MONTH SINCE LOSING NORRIS AND WEBSTER, WILSON IS TURNING HER PAIN INTO PURPOSE IN HOPES TO CHANGE THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE, BREAKING APART FAMILIES LIKE HERS THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITY. IT IS SO CONSTANT, YOU DON’T HAVE TIME TO MOURN SOME ONE ELSE. AND THEN THERE’S ANOTHER MURDER AND THEN ANOTHER MURDER. AND SHE HOPES HER PRAYER FOR HELP FROM THE COMMUNITY DOESN’T GO UNHEARD. THIS THIS IS A EPIDEMIC THAT’S GOING ON INSIDE OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY. AND UNTIL THE PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY, WE START TO SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND START COMING FORWARD TO SPEAK. IT’S GOING TO CONTINUE TO HAPPEN. NOW, AGAIN, NO ONE HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR THE DEATHS OF NORRIS AND WEBSTER. NOW, THIS IS AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION, AND ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS AND INFORMATION THAT LEADS TO AN ARREST IS WORTH $5,000. FOR NOW, WE��

Loved ones of a couple found dead just days after Valentine’s Day gathered to send a message to stop gun violence within the community on Saturday.Angeliyah Webster and Christan Norris were reported missing on Valentine’s Day in Ensley after they were heading toward a movie theater. Two days later, police found their bodies in Wylam inside the car they were last reported seen in. Police told �� 13 at the time they had been shot to death.Norris�� cousin Sherita Wilson Clark said the family is still grieving his and Webster’s deaths. No one has been arrested for their murders yet, but they’re still fighting for justice �� not just for their family �� but for anyone else whose murder is unsolved.“We are crying now, but it could be your family crying tomorrow,�� Clark said. “My brother was murdered back in ��08, and they still have not found the person that did that �� not only just him �� it was him and someone else in the car with him. Two dead bodies in a car, and now 16 years later, here it is again has happened in our family.”The pain of the couple losing their lives while those responsible still get to live and are not behind bars yet doesn’t sit right with Wilson.“People are vicious,�� Wilson said. “We need to get them off the street. Though we do forgive who did these murders, they need to be off the street.”Just a few days shy of it being one month since losing Norris and Webster, Wilson is turning her pain into purpose in hopes of changing the cycle of violence breaking apart families like hers throughout her community.“It is so constant,�� Wilson said. “You don’t have time to mourn someone else, and then there’s another murder, and then another murder."She hopes her prayer for help from the community doesn’t go unheard.“This is an epidemic that’s going on inside of the Black community, especially,�� Wilson said, “and until the people in our community start to say, ‘Enough is enough,�� and start coming forward to speak, this is going to continue to happen.”No one has been arrested for Norris and Webster’s deaths. The case is still being investigated. Anyone with information is asked to call Crimestoppers. Any information that leads to an arrest is worth $5,000.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —

Loved ones of a couple found dead just days after Valentine’s Day gathered to send a message to stop gun violence within the community on Saturday.

Angeliyah Webster and Christan Norris were reported missing on Valentine’s Day in Ensley after they were heading toward a movie theater. Two days later, police found their bodies in Wylam inside the car they were last reported seen in. Police told �� 13 at the time they had been shot to death.

Norris�� cousin Sherita Wilson Clark said the family is still grieving his and Webster’s deaths. No one has been arrested for their murders yet, but they’re still fighting for justice �� not just for their family �� but for anyone else whose murder is unsolved.

“We are crying now, but it could be your family crying tomorrow,�� Clark said. “My brother was murdered back in ��08, and they still have not found the person that did that �� not only just him �� it was him and someone else in the car with him. Two dead bodies in a car, and now 16 years later, here it is again has happened in our family.��

The pain of the couple losing their lives while those responsible still get to live and are not behind bars yet doesn’t sit right with Wilson.

“People are vicious,�� Wilson said. “We need to get them off the street. Though we do forgive who did these murders, they need to be off the street.��

Just a few days shy of it being one month since losing Norris and Webster, Wilson is turning her pain into purpose in hopes of changing the cycle of violence breaking apart families like hers throughout her community.

“It is so constant,�� Wilson said. “You don’t have time to mourn someone else, and then there’s another murder, and then another murder."

She hopes her prayer for help from the community doesn’t go unheard.

“This is an epidemic that’s going on inside of the Black community, especially,�� Wilson said, “and until the people in our community start to say, ‘Enough is enough,�� and start coming forward to speak, this is going to continue to happen.��

No one has been arrested for Norris and Webster’s deaths. The case is still being investigated. Anyone with information is asked to call Crimestoppers. Any information that leads to an arrest is worth $5,000.

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Family of couple found dead in Wylam calls for justice after case still unsolved

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