DeKALB – NIU honored the victims of the 2008 shooting at 3:06 p.m. Wednesday with a tolling of five bells to represent each life lost 16 years ago. The event took place outside Cole Hall, the building in which the shooting occurred. On Feb. 14, 2008, NIU students Gayle Dubowski, 20, Catalina Garcia, 20, Julianna.
Northern Illinois University recently announced its 2023 recipients of the Forward, Together Forward scholarship, a fund created in honor of the five NIU students who were killed in a mass shooting in DeKalb on Feb. 14, 2008.
It s been 15 years since a lone gunman stepped into a Northern Illinois University lecture hall and fatally shot five students, wounding dozens of others and leaving a mark some say won t ever go away.
DeKALB – The NIU community stood together in remembrance of the students who were killed 15 years ago. Tuesday’s vigil also came less than 24 hours after a fatal mass shooting on the campus of Michigan State University. On Feb. 14, 2008, five NIU students were killed by a gunman in Cole Hall. The memorial.
In his first interview since surviving the 2008 mass shooting incident at Northern Illinois University on Valentine’s Day, Professor Joseph Peterson tells his.