Victims' families plead for nonviolence in new radio ads

BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - You may have heard them on the radio. Murder victims' families are sharing their pain and the emotion of what they're going through.

Sherita "Ree"AL" Wilson lost her brother in 2008. 33 year old Quintez Wilson was gunned down in Norwood. No one was ever charged.

It's going on four years since his death and Ree'AL still has no closure.

Ree'AL said, "My mother, it's hard for her to even come out of the house now. So just I have to deal with a lot. I try to be strong for her."

She's hoping the tragedy in her life will save another person.

Ree'AL is one of several murder victim's family members part of a new "Stop the Violence" initiative airing on 98.7 KISS-FM .

The radio station is airing the messages, hoping to get people in Birmingham to stop the murders.

Radio personality Chris Coleman says his program director came up with the idea after the five murders in Ensley earlier this year.

Coleman is hoping that people hearing the heartbreaking stories of victims' parents and siblings, will make a difference.

For Ree'AL being part of this project was hard, but she says her story and the pain behind it need to be heard. People have to see how it affects families.

Ree AL said, "It's going to affect me forever because he left kids here. People they do all these senseless acts they forget about people left behind."

The messages started airing this month.

Coleman says he especially hopes young people will hear them to change the mindset of youth and get them to care more about human life.

The suspects in the Ensley murders were teenagers.

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