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Wanda Ridgeway, second from left, the executive director of Rise Up Rochester, participates in a prayer circle with women attending the group’s monthly support group for family members of victims. Everyone in attendance were women who were sisters, cousins, aunts, and mothers of the victims. Rise Up is a Rochester based anti-gun violence group that “empowers the community to establish and maintain a nonviolent culture and provides support to crime victims and their families.”