She was not sexually abused and her body showed no signs of torture or restraint by rope or wire.
Chanel was killed less than 24 hours before her body was found on June 22, 2006, and her Air Jordan Retro sneakers and Sanyo
Sprint cell phone were missing. The police haven't announced an arrest or a suspect yet, meaning the murderer of this
innocent child remains on the loose. Anybody with information should call (800) 577-TIPS, a hotline where you don't have to
leave your name. The case has sparked a movement to take back the streets of Central Brooklyn: Well over $30,000 has been
raised in reward money for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Chanel's killer.
Next Sunday, a group of correction officers and cops will
square off in a basketball match at Boys and Girls High School to raise money for Chanel's reward fund. Tickets are $10 each
and the first game starts at 3 p.m. Last year, the same officers raised $5,700. Local news organizations and national shows
including "Nancy Grace" and "America's Most Wanted" have aired multiple stories on Chanel's murder, helping to keep the story
before the public.
The Rev. Al Sharpton has used his radio show and half a dozen
rallies, including one in Harlem yesterday, to urge community residents to come forward with information. Last week, about
100 residents joined a "stop the violence" march down Fulton St. organized by activist Taharka Robinson. The community has
stepped up. Now all of New York needs to rethink the way we respond when a young person has gone missing. Right now, parents
have little recourse beyond filing a report at the local precinct - where cops routinely treat such cases as false alarms
by kids hanging out with friends. Chanel's parents, for instance, went to the 81st Precinct, frantically explaining that their
daughter, a churchgoing honor student, would never simply run away. It didn't matter.
The cop who took the report still typed that Chanel was a "runaway." The parents were left to mount
their own search, right up to when her body was found. Something similar happened in the 2003 case of Romona Moore, a student
at Hunter College who was abducted off a Brooklyn street near her home by a pair of animals named Kayson Pearson and Troy
Hendrix. Over the course of four days, the pair raped and tortured Romona before beating her to death with a barbell and dumping
her mutilated body in a vacant building. We need a response level comparable to the Fire Department, which answers countless
false alarms every day because we can't take the risk of ignoring a real one.
THEIR WILL BE
A MEMORIAL WALK IN THE HONOR OF CHANEL P. NIXON ON JUNE 16, 2012 AT 1605 FULTON STREET PROCEEDING TO 212 KINGSTON AVENUE BETWEEN
PARK PLACE AN STERLING PLACE AT 11:00AM SHARP, WE REQUEST THE HONOR
AN PRESENCE OF THE CHURCH COMMUNITY TO ATTEND THIS IMPORTANT EVENT!
Men an Women Foundation To Stop the Violence, believe that Chanel Petro
Nixon who was found on June 22, 2006 deserves more, then just a March on on the Anniversary of her Killing!
IN THE HONOR
OF CHANEL P. NIXON WE MUST PUT HER KILLER BEHIND BARS