#community-vigil

#community-vigil

My name is Sarah Schofield. Kevin Doherty was my fiancé and on August 28th, he was shot and killed after walking our six-year-old son to his second day of school. The saying is true, there are no words that can fully capture the overwhelming pain and grief that we are experiencing. By now many of you know, Kevin and I were set to be married on September 20th.

A young man carrying white flowers approached a police line a block away from the church and school on Wednesday where hours earlier an assailant opened fire on schoolchildren, blasting bullets through stained glass windows and killing two kids. Arthur Louie grew up a few blocks away from Annunciation church in south Minneapolis, Minnesota. The church throws a fair before school starts, he said, describing it as a staple point in this community.

The balloons -- we don't know where they are going. We are just letting them go, releasing them. I believe Raymond will get one of those balloons," said Daniela Ruiz, Orozco's mother. "...he never carried any bad with him. He carried the good. Because my little brother was so good," Raymond's sister Sabrina told the crowd. "His next career that he was trying to aim for was to become an EMT or firefighter. Those are all things that he did because he believed in service and helping others..." said Roy Orozco, Raymond's father.

People wrapped their arms around each other as they remembered Vanessa Whyte, 45, a vet originally from Co Clare, her son James, 14, and daughter Sara, 13.

Mark Walker, 52, his wife Sara, 50, and their son Johnny, 14, are missing after flash floods in Central Texas. Their daughter Ellie was rescued.

"He was a real one," George Arterberry said about Boomer. Arterberry, a teacher at Castlemont, had a classroom two doors down from Boomer's.

At the vigil for Pearl, Vallejoan Bridget Dougherty expressed the importance of community support, emphasizing the need to help those who feel they lack a voice.

Harsimrat Randhawa was an innocent bystander in a tragic shooting incident in Hamilton, highlighting the senseless violence affecting communities, particularly innocent students.