Lantern Lit on 7/11/17-7/18/17 for Willie C. Greer of Milwaukee

Lantern Project: Since October 2013, Hope House has joined with other domestic violence programs around the state by implementing the Lantern Project. For our part in this statewide project, we added to the lamppost in front of Hope House a purple wreath. We will turn on the light for a week every time there is a death related to domestic violence in Wisconsin. We will post information online about the person(s) that was killed. If you drive by our building and see our lamppost on, please reflect on the deadly impact that domestic violence has on our communities. We know the list of stories we post here is incomplete. We strive to learn about and share these stories but know that there are some that we and the media miss. If you see a news story of a death in WI related to domestic violence and don't see it posted here, please feel free to let us know about it here. Thank you.

Willie Greer

Obituary

News Story: "A Milwaukee woman accused of starting a house fire that killed a man last week told police she did it to get the man she was dating out of the house so she could continue to fight with him, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday. Java Wright, 39, was charged with first-degree reckless homicide and building arson in connection with setting the fire that killed Willie O. Greer, 72, on June 16"...Read more

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