Bells chimed outside at 3:06 p.m. Tuesday once for each of the five victims.
Laurel Dubowski, whose 20-year-old daughter Gayle Dubowski was killed in a 2008 mass shooting on Northern Illinois University campus, said Tuesday she felt determined to return to DeKalb for an annual memorial despite how difficult memories of the day remain 15 years later.
Catalina Garcia, 20; Daniel Parmenter, 20; Ryanne Mace, 19; Julianna Gehant, 32; and Gayle Dubowski, 20, were killed in the shooting by a lone gunman and former NIU graduate student who fired almost 50 rounds into a lecture room inside Cole Hall shortly after 3 p.m. that day. Dozens more were injured.Dubowski said one thing that keeps her going despite how tough it is not having her daughter, a sophomore Anthropology major, around any longer is easy to pinpoint.
In a Twitter post Tuesday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker marked the somber occasion for NIU. The governor also issued condolences for the deadliest high school shooting in American history that occurred five years ago, when a 19-year-old gunman murdered 17 and injured more than a dozen on Feb. 14, 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the Miami suburb of Parkland, Florida.
Matt Swan, instructor in NIU's Communications Department, stood solemnly after the ceremony visibly moved observing the memorial with his wife, Judie Santacaterina.
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