"This event has never been associated with any violence and has always been to promote putting an end to violence by bringing people together through love," he said. "Our crowd typically consists of college graduates and young professionals, some who work in politics, law enforcement, finance etc. Our actual BBQ ended at 8:45 p.m. at which time people began to disperse from the Park. There were two other BBQs in the same vicinity to ours which ended around the same time. These shootings occurred two and three hours after our event ended."