Dozens of family members of victims of gun violence were joined by local elected officials in a march through the streets of Mott Haven, once again calling for an end to gun violence this past weekend.

Under the threat of rain, nearly 200 people from such organizations as the New York City Chapter of Mom’s Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, the Bronx Chapter of the Million Mom March and New Yorker’s Against Gun Violence, Bronx Chapter, for the Annual Mother’s Day Eve Anti- Violence March and Rally, held on Saturday, May 11.

Local officials, including City Council Speaker and Mayoral candidate Christine Quinn, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., and Senator Gustavo Rivera joined the crowd on Saturday, May 11 at East 139 Street and Brook Avenue for the march to the People’s Park at E. 141 Street and St. Anne’s Avenue.

“The work that you have been doing has enabled us to say that the Bronx is the safest it has been,” said Diaz, who first marched with the group during his early years in politics as an assemblyman. “[But] when you have all of the different parents that you have here, it’s unimaginable, unconscionable for me to find the words” to make them feel better.

Joanne Sanabria, the mother of 2-year old David Pacheco, who was killed by a stray-bullet as his family drove across West Tremont Avenue on Easter Sunday 2006, in a highly-publicized case, told attendees that those who take a life don’t think of the consequences adding, “No one thinks about the people left behind, the families.”

Spending her life raising her two surviving daughters Lexsie, 14, and Lezlie, 14, and being apart of the anti-violence movement, Sanabria revealed later, “At one point I gave up because it had been so long.”

Last month, police charged 35-year old Daryl Hemphill, who was arrested in North Carolina, with the 7-year old crime. Hemphill pleaded not-guilty and is expected back in court on June 14.

Sanabria credited “a good support group” made up of family members and friends that have got her to this point, and added, “There will never be complete closure, because it’s not like it’s going to bring my son back.”

Others remain without resolution. Mario and Santa Suazo’s daughter Eva, 16, was gunned down in Soundview Park in 1996. Her death remains unsolved.

“All of the homicide detectives who worked on my daughter’s case have retired already,” Santa Suazo said.

Suazo’s granddaughter Cynthia, 25, said the family’s participation in the anti-violence movement helped “console” her. “Even though there is no way of fixing the issues, there’s other families out there going through the same thing,” she said.