LYNCBHURG, Va. – It’s been a year since 6-year-old Kingston Campbell was shot and killed while playing video games inside his home and still, no arrest.
One organization is making sure people feel safe in their neighborhood.
“I was extremely excited,” said Rebecca Warner, who is a domestic violence survivor.
Warner is pleased the Peacemakers installed a security camera on her home.
“When you have a camera like that in the house, you can look at see what’s going on,” Warner said.
Warner learned about the Peacemakers while she was recovering from her injuries in February of this year.
She and others are feeling secure that cameras are going onto homes where there have been recent crimes.
“It does, it’s motion detected, when the dogs are out there it gives me a little notification,” Warner said.
Since January of this year, Peacemakers installed 60 of these cameras in hot spots around the city, the idea is that if something happens in the area.
It’s caught all on camera.
“I feel a whole lot more with Peacemakers here, they put up cameras, they get a lot more surveillance of what’s going on around here,” Jackie Randolph, whose father has a security camera said.
Peacemakers President Shawn Hunter said after Kingston was shot and killed about a year ago, is when they decided to put on security cameras.
There are 25 people on a waitlist since cameras are bought with money raised from the community.
Hunter figured there should be more security cameras to help catch those responsible.
“We feel an extra set of eyes are always important because people are afraid to come out and speak about certain things,” Hunter said.
Hunter said additional cameras could help solve Kingston Campbell’s case or potentially others.
“As far as that incident was concerned they only had a camera view at one angle, if they had them at more angles that would be able to solve this,” Randolph said.