ORLANDO, Fla. — As people in Central Florida and beyond mourn the three lives taken in Pine Hills last week, activists are calling for change.

What You Need To Know

  • Pine Hills Community Council is holding a meeting Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at The Experience Christian Center

  • Panel to include young people, clergy leaders and elected officials

  • Three people were killed and two people were injured in a string of shootings Wednesday Feb. 22

The Pine Hills Community Council is holding a meeting Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at The Experience Christian Center.

Council President Sandra Fatmi-Hall said she will be on a panel with young people, clergy leaders and elected officials, working to create concrete solutions to help prevent gun violence in the area.

She is inviting members of the community to attend.

“I refuse to think that there’s more bad than good,” she said. “But right now, the way that we’re feeling, it feels as if there’s more bad than good and we can’t have that.”

Nathacha Augustin, 38, T’Yonna Major, 9, and Spectrum News 13 Multimedia Journalist Dylan Lyons, 24 were killed as a result of a string of shootings Wednesday. Two people were injured.

Fatmi-Hall wants people to take action to keep what happened at the forefront: “Sometimes I have to say that Pine Hills is forgotten because we’ll hear a conversation and now we’re rallying around what’s going on, but then in two weeks we forget that this even took place and we go back to our regular lives.”