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December 21, 2012

Victims of Sandy Hook to Be Mourned in Moment of Silence 
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People across the United States are expected to join a moment of silence
at 9:30 a.m. this morning to mark one week since the massacre at Sandy
Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Last Friday morning Adam Lanza
opened fire at the school, killing 20 children and six adults. A series
of back-to-back wakes and funerals are continuing for the victims. Those
mourned on Thursday include Catherine Hubbard, Benjamin Wheeler, Jesse
Lewis and Allison Wyatt, all age six, and Grace Mc Donnell, age seven. A
service was held in New York for teacher Anne Marie Murphy who is
believed to have used her body to shield students from a hail of
bullets. Thirty-year-old teacher Lauren Rousseau was also mourned
Thursday in Connecticut. Rousseau’s partner of a year, Tony Lusardi,
spoke to CNN.

Tony Lusardi: "I want the world to know that Lauren was a great person.
She touched the lives of everyone she ever met. Even if you only met her
once, you liked her. She was a great person and she didn’t deserve
this. No one deserved this."

A private memorial service was also held Thursday in New Hampshire for
Nancy Lanza, the mother of the gunman and his first victim. Adam Lanza
shot his mother in her bed with her own gun before driving to the
school.

 

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