Support Ron's Fresh Start with a New Car

Hi, Shaker! My name is Lena, Class of 2008. Like many of you, I watched in horror from the sidelines as our classmate and friend, Ronald Kelly-Nunn, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison in 2010. The details of the situation are complicated, and we may never know what really happened that November night. But we do know that what happened next was not justice. Writing for Cool Cleveland in June 2010, Mansfield Frazier put it this way :

The entire criminal justice apparatus — from the police who initially investigated the case, to the detectives who took the case over, to the prosecutor who tried it — appears to be prejudiced at best and racist at worst … no other words can describe their collective behavior. The system broke down under the weight of race, and yet the trial judge did nothing to stop it. The legal mob ruled.

Certainly the family of the dead man, Christopher Kernich, deserves justice — but the question remains, was justice served, or was this something else?

Here we are 15 years later and Ron is just out of prison on parole. We couldn't help him in 2010, so how can we help him now?

As he transitions back to life on the outside, Ron is working to get his driver's license back. He will take his DMV test on July 9, and then hopefully will have his license. What he doesn't have is a car. This is where we come in. We are looking to our Shaker community to get Ron some wheels. As he invests in himself by pursuing his license, let's invest in him by helping him get a car so he can use it.