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Houston mothers on a mission to stop teen violence

Delindsey Mack's cold-blooded, execution-style murder this week is triggering memories and a call for change.

HOUSTON - When the police arrived, the crime tape went up, and 18-year-old Delindsey Mack lay dead on the sidewalk outside Lamar High School, dozens of mothers around Houston felt their hearts tighten.

"It was deja vu," said Kathy Blueford-Daniels. "This is something we live with everyday."

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Daniels started BLAC MOM after her son Patrick was murdered in 2006. Calandrian Kemp lost her son George five years ago. It's why she started The Village of Mothers.

"Everyday looking at an empty bedroom, that's fire enough to get up and do something to help somebody else," Kemp said.

These mothers started their groups to turn their pain into purpose.

"On Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, holidays we go to the cemetery to see our children," Blueford-Daniels said. "So this is a lifetime of grief that we're forced to live with."

Mack's cold-blooded, execution-style murder this week is triggering memories and a call for change.

"Had it not happened at Lamar or River Oaks, it would have been another black kid who was shot," Blueford-Daniels said. "That's the reality of it."

Now they know Dahlia Mack, Delindsey's mother, is preparing to bury her son, too.

"You're not by yourself," Kemp said. "We, too, have been down that road."

The Village of Mothers is a constantly growing group of parents grieving their children after their murders, there to assist families with the journey ahead. And after yet another teen was gunned down to gang violence, they're tired of seeing their membership tragically rise.

"We don't want anymore members," Blueford-Daniels said. "We don't want people to be joining this."

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