Mother to host 10th annual West Side block party in memory of son, who was fatally shot

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Mother to host 10th annual West Side block party in memory of son, who was fatally shot

The mother of a teen victim of Charleston's gun violence will hold the 10th annual block party on April 27, 2024 in his memory. From 5-8 p.m., city officials will close the street in front of Breanna McKinney's former home at 801 Sixth St. where her only child, Tymel McKinney, 18, was fatally shot on April 23, 2014 while sitting on his front porch. Breanna McKinney organized the block parties beginning in 2015 to remember her son, but also to ad…