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Governor Quinn Joins the NIU Community to Remember Five Students that Lost their Lives One Year Ago

Press Release - Saturday, February 14, 2009

Officials remember those slain in the NIU shooting

DEKALB -February 14, 2009. On Saturday at Northern Illinois University (NIU) Martin Luther King Commons, Governor Pat Quinn joined NIU President John Peters, students, teachers and other community members in a memorial walk from the Martin Luther King Commons to Cole Hall to remember the five students that lost their lives one year ago.  They placed wreaths at the future site of a memorial dedicated to those who died on February 14, 2008.
 
"One year ago, five students lost their life in a tragic, senseless shooting," Governor Quinn said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of those students and we thank the NIU community that has come together to grieve and comfort each other."
 
On February 14, 2008, a gunman opened fire on the campus of NIU in DeKalb; 17 people were wounded and five students died, including Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter.  Cole Hall, where the Governor and community members placed wreaths on Saturday, was the location of the tragic shooting.
 
This senseless act of violence happened less than a year after the shooting at Virginia Tech, one of the deadliest campus shootings in U.S. history.
 
Governor Quinn was joined in DeKalb by NIU President John Peters, students, teachers and other community members.
 
 

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