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The State - News from April 10, 1989

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Several hundred residents of a drug-torn San Francisco neighborhood marched through the streets in a protest against crack cocaine and weekend shootings that left two dead and several injured in another part of the city. “We are going to march and shout and sing and pray till this crack cocaine is completely eradicated from our community,” said the Rev. Cecil Williams, who led the march through the Ocean View area. Although the march and rally in the southern part of the city had been planned for several weeks, a drive-by ambush and another shooting less than two miles away in the Bayview-Hunters Point district gave people another reason to participate, said Williams, pastor of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church. Two gunmen got out of a car and fired more than 40 shots into a crowd, killing two people and injuring nine in the worst mass shooting in San Francisco since five people were killed and 11 wounded in the 1975 Golden Dragon Massacre in Chinatown.

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