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Family, friends gather to remember, demand justice for former WMU football player Jamal Williams killed in shooting

Family and friends of former WMU football player Jamal Williams, along with other demonstrators of roughly 100 people gathered peacefully outside Community Hospital in Munster, Ind. on Thursday night to remember the life of and demand justice for the 22-year-old who was shot and killed at the hospital on Tuesday, June 16.

Jamal’s sister, Imani Williams, along with one of Williams’ friend’s from high school, Juan Gutierrez, helped organize the march that looped around a bike trail near the hospital as the crowd belted out chants related to demanding justice for Williams’ death.

“We want the hospital to have protocols, to make sure that when there is a patient in distress that sedation is always the first thing,” Gutierrez said.