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Vigil held for Milwaukee sisters killed less than 1 year apart
A Milwaukee mother who lost two daughters just 10 months apart is speaking out, hoping her story prevents more families from suffering the same pain.
MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee mother who lost two daughters just 10 months apart is speaking out, hoping her story prevents more families from suffering the same pain.
What we know:
Martha Dunmore said her 23-year-old daughter, De-Lisha, was shot and killed last month near 42nd and Hope. Less than a year earlier, her 20-year-old daughter, Talise, was killed when a convicted drunk driver with multiple OWIs struck both sisters.
In the past six years, she has now lost three daughters.
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She is hoping her story makes a difference in someone else’s life.
"It’s been very difficult," Dunmore said. "Why did my daughter have to lose her life in order for this person, for there to be substantial consequences, and I think that’s the problem."
Two Milwaukee sisters killed less than a year apart; mother speaks out
A Milwaukee mother has now lost three daughters, including two within the past year.
On Sunday, Sept. 21, Dunmore held a vigil to honor her daughters and bring attention to bad driving.
What they're saying:
"The fact that two of my daughters' deaths were preventable," she said.
Community activists joined her, calling for stronger accountability. Jessica Wineberg, Milwaukee’s Vision Zero Policy Director, is pushing for legislation that would bring traffic safety cameras to the city.
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"There would be half as many crashes that hurt or kill people, so just with it being that effective, we absolutely want to have this tool," Wineberg said. "Hopefully see families in mourning and less lives lost."
Meanwhile, Dunmore said she hopes sharing her story can also deter someone from making the same choices that took her daughters’ lives.
"If I can make a difference in their lives and turn their life around, just one, then my babies would not have died in vain," she said.
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