Alexandra Kogut

On the eve of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, many of us in the Utica-Rome area hardly need a reminder. At the end of September, we share the memory of women taken too soon...and we need to keep talking about it.

The annual AK5K Run-Walk brings people together to remember a special Central New Yorker and raise funds to help others.

The AK5K is underway on the Marcy Campus of SUNYIT in memory of Alex Kogut, the SUNY student who was killed last year in her dorm room.

Remember the purple ribbons around CNY last fall to honor  Alexandra Kogut?  Many of those purple ribbons can still be seen along Oxford Road in New Hartford.  This fall, help celebrate the life of Alexandra Kogut with the AK5K on October 12th.

It is more common than you might think.  Abusive relationships start young and Seventeen Magazine is using a local story to draw attention to an issue that affects many relationships.

With October being Domestic Violence Awareness month and the recent murder of New Hartford teen Alex Kogut, a Facebook page was set up asking everyone to wear purple today.  The call was heard loud and clear.  Today there's purple everywhere you turn.

New Hartford, NY (WIBX) - Hundreds turned out for Alexandra Kogut's funeral service at St. John The Evangelist Church in New Hartford.

New Hartford native Alex Kogut was found dead at her residence at SUNY Brockport, a victim of an apparent domestic violence attack.  An out porting of community support both from home here in CNY and in Brockport is materilzing on this memorial Facebook page.  A touching Facebook cover image has also been created.

New Hartford, NY (WIBX) - Facebook friends of Alexandra "Alex" Kogut have  set up a page for comments in memory of the 18-year old murder victim.