by KYW's Karin Phillips

The organization of mothers, grandmothers, and other women who have lost loved ones to violence is honoring its fifth anniversary. 

In 2001, Dorothy Johnson Speight (center in above file photo) lost her son after a man shot him seven times and then when his gun jammed, kicked her son in the face, all over a parking space. 

She says that a short time later she got a vision of women in the street with bullhorns, yelling at people to put down their guns:

"That was going to be the catalyst that saved my life, because that's where I was, I was just like, if I don't do something, I'm going to go crazy, I'm going to die."

Mothers in Charge has grown to more than 400 women, many who were be honored for their work at an event on Tuesday night at the Hyatt Regency on Penn's Landing.

"The numbers are increasing. But what we tell each other and how we stay motivated and stay encouraged to do this work that, if we weren't doing what we do, the numbers would probably be higher." 

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