MARCH AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE JUNE 25 th , 2022
Statement:
My name is Alizcia Gurule’ and I am the creator of Johnny’s Angles LLC, we are a small business who is
independently funded. We created a March Against Gun Violence Protest held every year in Antioch,
California in Honor of my son Jonathon Parker. However, the march that was created to honor my son
has expanded in that we now march for over 40 families from all over the world. This year is our 3 rd
Annual March Against Gun Violence. I am writing to humbly and respectfully request your presence but
First, I believe such a request mustn’t go without presenting the history of the event and our mission.
Furthermore, what “YOUR” presence would signify and mean to the community, youth, and families
fighting to end gun violence. In addition to creating the Annual event, we also conduct balloon releases
on holidays, provide thanksgiving baskets, adopt a family for Christmas, and this year we will provide a
$500-1000 scholarship to a graduate attending a trade school, college, or university. All our gestures and
commitment to our community are dedicated to honoring my son and victims of gun violence.
History:
Jonathon D’ wayne Parker made national news January 31 st , 2020, not because he was 6’4 225lbs and an
amazing athlete, protector of his community, and provider for those less fortunate. My son’s headline
would read 16-year-old shot multiple times leaving his high school basketball game, fighting for his life. 15
hours later the news headline would read, 16-year-old Jonathon Parker, succumbs to the injuries, a
the community is destroyed. Jonathon Parker was 16 years young when he decided to attend his first ever
high school event. Upon completion of the event, Jonathon called his brother to pick him up. The
brothers spoke of grabbing fast food and then heading home. I spoke to Jonathon moments before he
would be subjected to the horrific violence from members of a rival school attending the rival game. As
Jonathon was departing from horseplaying with his coach and brother, a fight broke out and shots were
fired. My son was shot four times, his brother watching the tragic event unfold. When I arrived at the
scene my surviving son was screaming and crying and my Jonathon was laying on the ground, his chest
was heaving up and down, I later found out that it was his body undergoing cardiac arrest. I held my
son's head in my lap and stroked his hair, I knew my son wasn’t going to make it, he was dying in my
arms. I drove behind the ambulance as it drove 40 miles an hour to the hospital, upon arrival my son
was rushed into emergency surgery. He fought as long as his human body allowed, he underwent 3 full
body blood transfusions, 2 surgeries, 1 open heart resuscitation, he was brought back to life 3 times. I
prayed to God, I prayed to my son, but nothing was going to bring my son back.
Our Mission:
The death of my son infuriated me, and the inclination to fight back expanded and inflamed my soul, I
became pugnacious. It was my newly found duty to ensure that EVERY CHILD returns home from a
school events and gun violence ends. I created an online petition Share petition · AUSD: Justice for
Jonathon Parker Ensure/Increase/Reform School Campus security · Change.org . This petition assisted in
the creation of a 970K grant awarded to the Antioch Unified School District to increase school security. It
was later rejected by the very school that failed to protect the students, staff, and parents that attended
the event that night. This broke my heart, I decided to hold the Antioch Unified School District
accountable for their negligence and am currently awaiting reprimand of the school via the lawsuit. My
fight did not stop with the lawsuit against AUSD. The pain brewed and manifested my decision to create
a march against gun-violence to bring awareness to my son’s story. The first year was a very large
gathering of over 300 attendees protesting gun violence and requesting to increase school security My
the desire was to bring attention to the loss of my son Jonathon and the school’s unwillingness to provide
adequate security during school and school events. The second year, we amplified the event and
decided to create a Facebook group called In Honor of Our Loved Ones to bring awareness to the event.
In the group, I met families of victims of gun violence and built an alliance to end gun violence with over
40 families. Our team created individual posters, shirts, and flyers, for each victim of gun violence and
took to the streets to march and protest. The idea behind networking was to bring awareness all over
the world to the losses of our loved one’s murdered by gun violence. I wanted to show and prove a
statistical decrease in gun violence (NATIONWIDE) on the day of the event. One day could realistically
save thousands of lives.
Your Presence and Importance:
Last year, I linked with late artist Lil Snupe’s mother and she spoke of attending but reluctantly didn’t
attend due to time constraints. A family member linked with the managers of the amazing rap artist
Mozzy (Jonathon’s favorite artist) and Mozzy created a shot out video message to my son and our
family. amazed at Mozzy and Lil Snupe’s mother’s humbleness and love for our son and his story. Their
thoughtful and meaningful contributions aroused our desire to invite individuals that our youth respect.
This year we would be honored if you would consider attending our event to save lives. This year our
ideas and overwhelming desires are to humbly request the presence of activists, artists who have
experienced this form of loss, individuals whose social status surpasses others and the youth respect,
and those who have a passion to end gun violence. We respectfully desire your presence and humbly
request that you attend and if desired speak to the youth, speak to the families attending, be the activist
you are, the influencer that the youth revere. If you do not wish to speak, your presence also speaks
volumes to the youth. If you attend it sets the tone that you care and you seek change, it provides a
desire for your followers to join, your fans to attend, and the snowball effect begins in a positive
manner. With your presence we can educate more families, march for more families, march for your
loved ones (if desired), bring awareness to the never-ending & increasing deaths caused by gun violence,
gain followers, attendees, youth who want to end gun violence, and touch the lives of those who might
even be headed down the wrong path. Our future, our youth, our loved ones stolen from us by gun
violence is the reason “WE MARCH AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE”. Please join us June 25 th (Invitation & Flyer
Attached) it cost nothing other than a trip to Antioch, California. As stated previously we have a 20-
million-dollar lawsuit against AUSD, one day this event will be funded by money that comes from pain,
from the death of my son and the event will flourish because of my son. I am committed to increasing
awareness of the event and increasing attendees every year to decrease deaths caused by gun violence.
Eventually, Johnny’s Angels LLC will statistically view a decrease in gun violence, and it starts with me,
you, the community, the youth. I thank you for your time and consideration. I hope and pray that you
will consider attending this event to save lives and to change lives. If you can not attend may we humbly
ask that you post the flyer for others to gain awareness of our march. We thank you from the bottom of
our hearts and pray that you will pledge to end gun violence with us, even if it’s just for one day.
Thank you,
Alizcia Gurule’
(925) 339-5034
(CEO/Founder of March Against Gun Violence)