DeKALB – NIU will hold its annual moment of reflection for the students lost to the mass shooting on Feb. 14, 2008: Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace and Daniel Parmenter. Five bells will toll at 3:06 p.m. Tuesday to pay tribute to the five students lost 15 years ago. Students, faculty and.
DEKALB, Ill. (WLS) Sunday marked 13 years since the shooting tragedy at Northern Illinois University.
On February 14, 2008, a gunman went into Cole Hall lecture hall armed with a shotgun and three pistols and shot 22 people, five fatally.
Victims remembered on anniversary of NIU lecture hall shootings Former Northern Illinois University student Ashley Wilson of Plainfield lays roses Sunday in front of the memorial honoring victims of the 2008 shooting at Cole Hall on the school s DeKalb campus. A ceremony was held Sunday to mark the 13th anniversary of the shooting that left five students dead and 21 injured. Mark Black/Shaw Media Illinois Roses lay on top of a stone slab at the Peaceful Reflection Garden outside Cole Hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. A ceremony was held Sunday to honor victims of the Feb. 14, 2008 shooting in the lecture hall that killed five students.
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DeKALB – Valentine’s Day on the NIU campus will forever be affected by the shooting that killed five students and left 21 injured, eight in critical condition inside of Cole Hall’s auditorium after the gunman entered a class and opened fire.
On Sunday, NIU’s Forward, Together Forward organization will ring bells five times at 3:06 p.m. outside of Cole Hall as a moment of reflection in remembrance of the five who lost their lives on Feb. 14, 2008, according to the NIU calendar.
NIU does everything it can to honor the victims, Catalina Garcia, Daniel Parmenter, Gayle Dubowski, Julianna Gehant and Ryanne Mace through their Forward, Together Forward website and the Memorial Garden outside of the Cole Hall Plaza.
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