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Mourners Say Goodbye To Slain Daughter Of Community Activist

(CBS) -- As a community activist, he's supported parents who lost their children to violence.

This weekend, Andrew Holmes will go to the funeral of his own adult daughter, killed last month by a gunman in Indianapolis.

CBS 2's Mike Parker reports from Englewood, where the visitation for Tamara Sword started Friday night.

Holmes, the award-winning crisis responder who's fought street crime for years, is preparing to bury his daughter, a victim herself of that violence.

"It takes a toll on you, but it's not going to stop me from fighting and trying to enhance the quality of life and save others here," Holmes tells Parker.

Chicago police officers and public officials alike stopped by to lend support to Holmes.

A fund has been set up to benefit Sword's children. It is the Tamara Sword Memorial Account, Chase Bank Account 3007993032.

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