A host of local, elected officials stood together with Mayor Eric Adams, local clergy members, violence interrupters, the NYPD, the 52nd Precinct Community Council and Bedford Park residents for a prayer vigil at the Bedford Park site where, as reported, now, one-year-old Baby Catherine was shot in the face while sitting in a parked car with the mother at Valentine Avenue and East 198th Street on Wednesday, Jan. 19.   The vigil, organized by president of the 52nd Precinct Community Council, Brenda Caldwell-Paris, and Rev. Jay Gooding of Jacobi Hospital’s “Stand Up to Violence” cure violence program, was held on

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Bronxites are angry, and beyond exhausted. Yet, they continue to persevere and show up for one another. Attached are some of the scenes from Friday evening’s prayer vigil, held at the corner of Valentine Avenue and East 198th Street in Bedford Park, the exact location where, as reported, an 11-month-old infant named Catherine was the unintended victim of a shooting to her cheek, while she was with her mother inside a parked vehicle on Wednesday evening, Jan. 19.   The vigil, organized by Pastor Jay Gooding and Brenda Caldwell-Paris, president of the 52nd Precinct Community Council, was attended by, among other

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