The gun violence in northwest Miami-Dade is what many call a community problem and that's exactly why rapper Fat Joe was asked to come to a local church Wednesday.
"The thing about kids and the youth is they don't know what they can be yet," Fat Joe said, while meeting with community members at the New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church.
The church's pastor said bringing the rapper to the small church is about giving the families at the front lines of violence hope.
"Sometimes you don't even know, you're so busy being a parent, working, paying the bills, doing what we gotta do, we don't even know what our kids is into, so we got to talk about it," Fat Joe said. "Not only do you have the kids who choose to be into crime but then you have the innocent bystanders."
The death of 6-year-old King Carter, who was shot and killed over the weekend in broad daylight, hit home for many at the church.
"The only thing that I can say as a mother going through this is pray," one mother who lost her son said. "Prayer got a lot of power to it."
The church says it will be fundraising to donate money to Crime Stoppers to help unsolved cases related to youth and violence in Miami-Dade.
