East Bay mothers of murdered children walk for healing [Video]

February 8, 2000, was a night that would change Lorrain Taylor’s life forever.

“Their world came to an end and mine did too,” Taylor recalled that her twin sons, Albade Taylor and Obadiah Taylor were both shot and killed with an AK-47 in an Oakland parking lot at just 22-years-old.

“My son, Gregory, called me, and he said to me, ‘Mom, I want you to stop what you’re doing right now and pray for strength,’ and I did.” Taylor said. “He called me back in about 20 minutes, and he said, he said to me mom, we lost them.”

After seven years of battling depression, Taylor would turn her pain into purpose.

“I just didn’t want any other mother to go through what I had gone through.”

By founding 1000 Mothers to Prevent Violence, Taylor would form a support group, and began reaching out to other moms like Shantee Baker of Berkeley, who also lost a child to …