Local Advocate for Victims' Families Stepping Down After Over 20 Years
By: KARK 4 News
Updated: January 16, 2013
An Arkansan who's been leading a local anti-violence movement for over 20 years is stepping down.
You may know him as Reverend Benny Johnson with the Stop the Violence movement.
Johnson started the organization in 1991 after a Central High School football player was killed.
Since then, he's advocated for victims' families and even raised nearly a thousand bikes for kids for the holidays.
"The joy of knowing you can help someone, a family in grief, it's a bittersweet moment but, I'll be still be helping the guys," Johnson says.
Johnson says arthritis is forcing him to pass the torch to Elder Walter Crockran.
You may know him as Reverend Benny Johnson with the Stop the Violence movement.
Johnson started the organization in 1991 after a Central High School football player was killed.
Since then, he's advocated for victims' families and even raised nearly a thousand bikes for kids for the holidays.
"The joy of knowing you can help someone, a family in grief, it's a bittersweet moment but, I'll be still be helping the guys," Johnson says.
Johnson says arthritis is forcing him to pass the torch to Elder Walter Crockran.
