PARMA, Ohio — Chrome, leather and purple filled the parking lot of Rookies Sports Bar and Grill in Parma Saturday afternoon. Several hundred motorcycle riders and others gathered to pay tribute to a Brunswick teen killed by domestic violence.The 18-year-old Brunswick High School student would have graduated in May. Several weeks before the ceremony, police say she was fatally shot by her 18-year-old boyfriend Logan Robertson on May 3 at a home on Southwick Boulevard.
Saturday, Pinardo organized a memorial motorcycle ride in Alyssa’s honor. He’s part of an Ohio chapter of the international organization Bikers Against Child Abuse . Of 131 deaths in Ohio caused by domestic violence, 15 were young people. It’s the highest number recorded since the group began tracking the numbers six years earlier.