Monday, December 17, 2012
The vigil took place Monday evening in Fort Lee’s Monument Park, where people read from scripture, prayed, offered words of comfort and shared personal stories in the wake of the tragic events of Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut.
Dozens of Fort Lee residents joined local clergy and community leaders at Monument Park Monday for a candlelight vigil for the victims, family and community members of Newtown, Conn., where a school shooting Friday claimed the lives of 20 children—six- and seven-year-olds—and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Fort Lee resident Kathy Lee, the mother of a six-year-old boy, said her heart was broken, along with those of mothers everywhere, when she heard about what happened in Connecticut Friday, and that no words could possibly comfort the families of the victims. “But we are here for one reason only: to say that we are so sorry for their loss, and that we are so sad for their loss, and that we are crying with them,” Lee said. “Our…
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Fort Lee police officers will be on patrol at local schools over the next several days, according to a Dr. Sharon Amato, who posted a letter on the school district’s website Saturday after the deadly shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.
Fort Lee’s Interim Superintendent of Schools issued a statement on the school district’s website, assuring parents and members of the school community that schools officials and the Fort Lee Police Department are doing “everything possible to secure our buildings and protect our children” in light of the tragic events in Newtown, Conn. Friday, where a school shooting claimed the lives of 26 people, including 20 children. “This is a harsh reminder of our vulnerability and a reminder that we must remain vigilant in safeguarding our children and staff,” Dr. Sharon Amato said in the statement. The Fort Lee Police Department will have officers on patrol “both outside and inside our buildings” over the next several days, according to Amato, who …
Sunday, December 16, 2012
The vigil, which organizers say is for people all faiths—or none—takes place Monday at 7 p.m. in Fort Lee’s Monument Park.
A candlelight vigil in Fort Lee’s Monument Park will take place Monday, Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. The vigil is being held in light of the mass shooting Friday in Newtown, Conn. that left 20 school children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School dead. Touted by organizers as a “gathering to give and receive comfort in light of the Newtown shooting,” the Monument Park vigil will provide Fort Lee residents an opportunity to “share with neighbors,” pray or be silent. It will also include a “message from Fort Lee to Newtown,” according to a flyer being distributed around town, although the physical form that message will take remained unclear, as organizers scrambled to plan the vigil. “Our idea is simple,” said Rev. Allison Moore of Fort Lee’s…
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Newtown police say all victims' families have been notified and that officials are not yet releasing the names of the gunman or children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Newtown, Conn., residents reeling from the massacre of 26 people, including 20 children, at an elementary school on Friday are searching for answers about the gunman’s motive. Police have said that they are “working backwards” to piece together the “why” behind the mass shooting in this town of about 27,000 about 60 miles northeast of New York City. A 12 p.m. Saturday prayer service is scheduled for St. John's Episcopal Church in Sandy Hook, a section of Newtown. Newtown Police Lt. George Sinko, the department’s public information officer, told Patch Saturday morning that investigators have no sense of what prompted the gunman to act. “There is no sense of motive at this time,” Sinko said. Though Connecticut State Police have declined to …
Friday, December 14, 2012
Hoboken man learns his brother killed 27 people, including their mother.
Ryan Lanza was at his job in Manhattan on Friday when news outlets began to report that he had massacred 20 school children in a sleepy Connecticut town. The reports said Lanza, a 24-year-old Quinnipiac University graduate, had murdered someone in his Hoboken apartment and then drove to Newtown, Conn., where he used a .223 caliber rifle and two other guns to kill 27 people before turning the gun on himself. The dead included his mother, Nancy. Lanza's thoughts quickly went to his developmentally disabled younger brother, Adam, whom he began to fear may have been responsible for the violence at Sandy Hook Elementary School, friends said. As media reports continued to name Ryan Lanza as the shooter and plastered his face across the world, he…
carol simon
10:42 pm on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
I am writing more for myself than about gun control or mental illness, as the recent horrific incident incites feelings related to my own life experience. I lost my brother, William Simon, to a random heinous crime of murder and the perpetrators were juveniles possessing guns. I just visited my brother’s grave last month as he was murdered during Thanksgiving by teens trapped in a violent … more ›