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Just four days after a jury convicted a man of murdering his 16-year-old son, Norvert Winston said that while he has no solution to the epidemic of violence that grips the nation, he knows that it begins with youths.

"The purpose for my son was to create a mindset for us all, to be mindful, make good choices," Winston said Monday after a ceremony marking the start of the annual Week Without Violence sponsored by the YWCA. "The solution to the problem I don't know, but I know it has to start with our youth."

On Friday, a 3rd District Court jury in Salt Lake City convicted 32-year-old Frank Paul Reyos of first-degree murder in the death of Kenyatta Winston, whose body was found Aug. 29, 2012, by a construction crew in a shallow ditch behind a vacant Sugar House lot.

A witness testified Reyos killed Winston the day after the teen and Reyos went to a Rose Park party, where Winston ran when violence broke out and Reyos was beaten and shot at.

The elder Winston spoke at a daffodil planting ceremony outside the Salt Lake City Public Safety Building in memory of victims of violence.

Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank said about 400 people are killed everyday in the U.S. in violent incidents.

"Why do we in society view that as acceptable?" Burbank asked. "There is no acceptable loss in a free society. Why are we not outraged that one individual will lose their life to violence?"

Dr. Charles Pruitt, a pediatric emergency doctor at Primary Children's Hospital, told of two instances where adults had guns they kept for protection that ended up in the death or maiming of children, including a boy who found his grandmother's gun, which she kept at her business.

"He pointed it and he pulled the trigger, and tragically he shot and killed his younger brother," said Pruitt.

In another incident, he said a man who kept a gun beside his bed heard a noise during the night and fired at it.

"The bullet, unfortunately, did not find a home invasion intruder," Pruitt said. "It found his daughter, who was critically wounded and maimed for life."

Sentencing for Reyos is set for Jan. 12 and he faces up to life in prison.

Norvert Winston said there were no winners with the verdict.

"I've lost something I'll never get back," he said.

After the ceremony, Winston and his wife, Valerie, put daffodil bulbs into the shallow holes dug along 500 East for the event.