Chanel Petro-Nixon Seven years later: Hope for justice ringing loud
After seven years, the murder of 16-year-old Chanel Petro Nixon is still unresolved, so that her killer on the loose.
A community of citizens outraged and his family did not give up hope and efforts to find out who has such a betrayal of the crime committed. With prayer vigil on 29 March and In June, they will continue to draw attention to this case.
"We did not finish what we started," said the mother of Petro-Nixon, Nixon Lucita, the search for justice for her daughter. "Our march is to get justice for Chanel and bring the community to understand that the family is injured, and the family needs their help to find answers, get whoever killed Chanel."
March, which was held annually from 2006 to 2011, is back in "to revive efforts to the community and to reorganize on the basis that it will come a new city government in January," said the Rev. W. Taharqa Robinson, Founder and CEO Brooklyn Anti-Violence Coalition.
"We do not know who will be the next member of the Council, will be the mayor or city council," Robinson said. "So we wanted to bring new prospective to every legislator in the city government that we do not let this case go into the cold files of unsolved crimes. We want to be on the agenda this case, if someone takes the government in January."
March is at 11 clock at 1605 Fulton St (between Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Lewis Avenue) and ends at 212 Kingston Ave begin. (Between Park Avenue and Sterling Place). The prayer vigil will begin at 12:30 clock
Petro-Nixon, who was a first-class, left his home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on Father's Day in 2006 to fill out a job application in the near Applebee's. She never went to Applebee or house for his family.
Four days later, the body of Petro-Nixon in a garbage bag in front of 212 Kingston Ave was found. in Brooklyn.
"I personally think there is anyone out there know what happened with him knows who murdered Chanel and they will say nothing," said Nixon. "They are just as responsible as the person who did. NYPD has done as much as they could. Because the body has been moved, there was not enough evidence, so we just need a someone to come forward with something . "
"Someone out there knows what Chanel Petro-Nixon, and the information they should have," Robinson said.
Nixon provides a representative each year until his daughter justice. "He did not need to be on March 1. It may be something in the community to honor his name. Request I you to keep us in their prayers," she said.