A Cry for Help—From God and the Community. Psalm 147:3

 

A Cry for Help—From God and the Community. Psalm 147:3 

“Bury Your Bullets, Not Our Babies” — A Sacred March Down Mississippi Avenue.



On Friday, April 11, 2025, our community marched down Mississippi Avenue with tears in our eyes and prayers in our hearts. From Allen Street—now the Atatiana Jefferson Memorial Parkway—to New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church, we walked in solemn unity to demand Treatment for the Trauma that gun violence, homicides, suicides, and domestic violence have inflicted upon our families and our future.



We marched with purpose. We prayed with power. We declared with conviction: Enough is enough.

We must bury bullets—not our babies.


But that same night, even as our feet still ached from the march and our voices still echoed with hope, a 2-year-old baby was shot and killed in South Fort Worth.

Ta’Kirus Davon Jones, just a toddler, became yet another innocent life lost to senseless gun violence. He died shortly before 11 p.m. in the emergency room at Cook Children’s Medical Center.

He never had a chance.



We marched to stop this very thing. Yet here we are, mourning again. Crying again. Asking God, why?


This is a cry of anguish from 76104. A sacred plea from a suffering people:

God, heal our land. Hear our prayers. Help us, Lord.



We are not alone in this mission of mercy and justice. Together with the Ministers Justice Coalition of Texas, the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship’s Guns to Gardens Initiative, and Farm Fort Worth, we are building a new path forward—a healing ministry rooted in peace, planted in faith, and nourished with love.


  • Guns to Gardens transforms instruments of death into tools of life—replacing firearms with garden tools to grow food and hope.
  • Farm Fort Worth tends sacred ground to feed families, employ youth, and restore dignity in the heart of a food desert.
  • The Ministers Justice Coalition marches not just with feet but with fierce resolve to defend our people and demand justice.




From the street to the soil, we are sowing seeds of change. We are not giving up. We will not be silent. We will remember Ta’Kirus—not just in sorrow, but in sacred action.



Elder Madison Hogan captured the holy moments of our march, but it is the spirit of our people that tells the full story. A story that must change. A story that cries out to be rewritten—with justice, healing, and love.



“We have been traumatized in 76104, and no one seems to care,” said Pastor Kyev Tatum.

But God cares.

We care.

And we are calling on our city, our churches, our leaders, and our neighbors:

Care with us. Act with us. Believe with us.



Healing Scripture:

“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” — Psalm 147:3


Let us bury bullets. Not our babies.

Let us march until the trauma is treated, the violence is halted, and every child can live and thrive in peace.


Special Thanks to Golden Gate Funeral Home of Fort Worth. We extend our deepest and most heartfelt gratitude to Golden Gate Funeral Home of Fort Worth and its visionary CEO, Mr. John E. Beckwith, Jr., CFSP, for graciously providing the hearse and casket services that made our sacred march possible.


Your compassion and commitment to community healing turned pain into purpose and helped us symbolically carry the burden of our collective grief through the streets of 76104. Your ministry of presence reminded us that dignity, even in mourning, can be a form of resistance and reverence.



#JusticeForTaKirus

#MarchDownMississippi

#TreatmentForTheTrauma

#BuryYourBulletsNotOurBabies

#GunsToGardens

#FarmFortWorth

#HolyHealingIn76104



— Pastor Kyev Tatum

New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church

Ministers Justice Coalition of Texas




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