Nearly 100 more Sikh community members also met in Fremont for more prayers and a candlelight vigil and calls to address gun violence in the country.
“We have to speak out in order to confront this, this violent crime,” said Union City Councilmember Gary Singh.
Community leaders at both Bay Area vigils said that enough is enough. Gun violence took the lives again of eight innocent people, and today was another shooting in Austin,” said Former Santa Clara Cultural Commissioner Harbir Kaur Bhatia.
“We do look up to them to make policy changes, up at the federal level to make sure that these types of incidents don’t happen again and again.”