I spent some time earlier this week with the members of Survivors Against Violence Everywhere, a group of loved-ones of homicide victims that come together with the help of the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office.

Each Christmas, they have a party and hang angels on a tree to remember their lost sons and daughters, sisters and brothers, and grandchildren. This year, so many came that they all couldn't fit into one one. There were 61 from killings, some who went through this a decade ago, and still the number was tiny compared to the 220 killings just this year alone.

In today's paper, The Sun's police reporter Justin Fenton details the latest killings -- the beatings of a disabled mother and her daughter.

Here are some pictures from the event taken by The Sun's Kenneth K. Lam. In the first, Jessie Snead shows a picture of her great grand-children whose grandfather and her son Terrance Thompson never met. Thompson was killed in 1993.

Below, D'erra Burton, 7, niece of Terrance Thompson, hangs an ornament on the Angel Tree of Remembrance: