After the latest death by overdose in Johnstown the community has had enough. 

The community got together Saturday for a vigil to honor the life of Angelo Toliver and to remind people of the Good Samaritan Law in Pennsylvania that protects those who call for help when someone they are with are suffering an overdose. 

Katherine Ciscato was one of the organizers of the event. She said, “To sit there and somebody overdose and call them later. To me, that’s not being active, that’s being scared, that’s being a wimp.”

Toliver’s family came from Pittsburgh to be at the event. His grandmother, Cheryl, said that the Johnstown community is now family for coming out to the event. She explained how she will take the message from the event and help spread it. She said, “One by one we are going to show this community, we’re going to show every family, we’re going to show this city, this state, this country, this world, that there are people who still care.” 

Toliver’s father, Stephen, was also in attendance. He spoke on the widespread reach that drugs have in communities everywhere. He explained, “It’s affecting everybody’s life. In some way, shape, or form. Somebody out here, a young child, a friend, a family member, may know somebody struggling. We got to do what we got to do to make things change and not let these things be in vain.”

The organizers of the event said that this won’t be the last event that the will hold. They will continue to spread the message to get drugs out of their community.