by JanieM
This thread is in memory of people who died of senseless gun violence. Anyone is welcome to add names and stories, whether from recent events or past years. Stories of the wounded are welcome as well; those people are going to have a hard road ahead.
No politics, no policy discussion please. I will remove it as soon as I see it. When and if I get time, I will copy the names and stories from the other thread into this one.
Leonard Cipeda Campos and Maribel Hernandez
Posted by: JanieM | August 05, 2019 at 10:15 PM
David Alvah Johnson
(Also from the Dallas News website, see link in the previous comment.)
Posted by: JanieM | August 05, 2019 at 10:27 PM
Sara Esther Regaldo Moriel and Adolfo Cerros Hernandez
Posted by: JanieM | August 05, 2019 at 10:28 PM
Elsa Mendoza de la Mora
Posted by: JanieM | August 05, 2019 at 10:29 PM
Maria Eugenia Legarrega Rothe
Posted by: JanieM | August 05, 2019 at 10:30 PM
Juan Velazquez
Posted by: JanieM | August 05, 2019 at 10:30 PM
Other victims
Posted by: JanieM | August 05, 2019 at 10:31 PM
Luis Juarez is the father of a colleague of mine. His wife is in the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound and subsequent surgery. I was already past having any useful words even before I found that out. Are we becoming a country where everyone who lives here is no more than two degrees of separation from a victim of a mass shooting? Will it matter?
Posted by: doretta | August 06, 2019 at 12:19 PM
My cousin's daughter, and her daughter, were at the concert in Las Vegas on 10/1/17. They weren't shot, but I'd still consider them victims. I doubt you ever get over something like that.
Posted by: JanieM | August 06, 2019 at 12:27 PM
Also, doretta -- condolences to your colleague, and all good wishes for Luis Juarez's wife's recovery.
Posted by: JanieM | August 06, 2019 at 12:29 PM
A best friend's husband was murdered by Timothy McVeigh and too numerous-to-count right wing accomplices in the Oklahoma City massacre.
I lived one mile from Columbine High School when the gun murders were carried out there. I was evacuated from the Columbine Public Socialist Library across the park within sight of the high school after the shootings. Drove immediately to my nine-year-old son's elementary school, also nearby, to show ID to release him from the lock down.
He wore a regular kid's backpack that day, not a Kevlar shield as is the fashion now.
Got to hear Franklin fucking Graham blame me and Al Gore, who was also present, for the killings at the Memorial service nearby several days later.
Many of the survivors and family members of the bombings and shootings were driven to alcohol for comfort and empty solace.
Religion and prayer too, for all that matters.
Posted by: John D. Thullen | August 06, 2019 at 12:43 PM
Peace to the dead and counting.
Posted by: John D. Thullen | August 06, 2019 at 12:46 PM
Beatrice N. Warren-Curtis, 36, and Monica E. Brickhouse, 39
. Tonya Amos wrote a powerful note on Facebook, remembering both women as "like two of my work daughters."
"I had the opportunity to manage and mentor them for some years. We sat beside each other everyday," Amos wrote. "We have laughed and cried together. Shared life stories and supported each other. These two ladies were very special to me. I'm sad and mad at this senseless loss. I cannot imagine how their families feel if I'm feeling this way."
Amos told CNN she worked with both women at health insurance giant Anthem. She met Warren-Curtis in 2012 and Brickhouse in 2014. "I looked at them as daughters," she said. "Monica was a mom and had a young son. I used to share parenting tips with her. Beatrice never had kids but was a good person. Outside of work, we had celebrations, birthdays, girls' night."
She said the three of them left their old department in 2016 and had not worked directly together since then, but had stayed in touch.
"They were my top performers. They helped train new associates and built a lot of positive relationships," she said. "They were bright and vibrant young ladies."
News of their deaths has left her shaken. "I woke up Sunday morning to text messages and I just couldn't believe it," Amos said. "I was devastated. My heart just broke for the two of them and their families."
Anthem said both women were associates who served on the company's research, recoveries and adjustments team. "We are deeply saddened by this tragedy," the insurer said. "Monica and Beatrice were not only co-workers, but dear friends, and valuable members of the Anthem team."
Posted by: JanieM | August 06, 2019 at 03:09 PM
Thank you for this Janie
Posted by: laura | August 06, 2019 at 07:44 PM
Yes, thank you Janie. There's nothing else to say.
Posted by: Girl from the North Country | August 07, 2019 at 12:18 PM
thank you Janie.
Posted by: russell | August 07, 2019 at 12:22 PM
I have hit a busy couple of days, but I will keep up with this when I can, and not just with the Dayton and El Paso names. For example, from May of 2018, a school shooting:
Christian Riley Garcia...
More about Riley here.
Posted by: JanieM | August 07, 2019 at 12:31 PM