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Newtown Shootings

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Patch Participating In Moment Of Silence For Shooting Victims

"Blackout" will take place at 9:30 a.m.

Patch will be participating in an AOL-wide "blackout" Friday (today) at 9:30 a.m. to remember the shooting victims in Newtown, Conn. A number of companies are also participating. To share: https://www.facebook.com/Patch/posts/10151141313292541 To retweet: https://twitter.com/PatchTweet/status/281881850690031618

Monday, December 17, 2012

Candlelight Vigil for Conn. Victims to Be Held In Toms River Monday

Vigil will be at 6:45 p.m. on the front lawn of Congregation B’nai Israel, 1488 Old Freehold Rd.

A community interfaith candlelight vigil will be held Monday night in Toms River in memory of the children and adults killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School In Newtown, Conn. The vigil will be held at 6:45 p.m. on the front lawn of Congregation B’nai Israel, 1488 Old Freehold Rd. Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, Cantor Steven Walvick and Education Director Betty Golub, of Congregation B’nai Israel in Toms River, will be presiding. In the event of rain, the vigil, which should last a half-hour, will take place in the Social Hall of B’nai Israel. “There will be prayers, music, words of comfort and solidarity as we all try to wrap our minds, souls and hearts around the horrifying events that took place on Friday, December 14, 2012, at Sandy …

Friday, December 14, 2012

Ryan Lanza, Wrongly Named As Mass Murderer, Left To Grieve

Hoboken man learns his brother allegedly killed 27 people, including their mother.

Ryan Lanza was at his job in Manhattan on Friday when news outlets began to report that he allegedly had massacred 20 school children in a sleepy Connecticut town. The reports said Lanza, a 24-year-old Quinnipiac University graduate, had murdered someone in his Hoboken apartment and then drove to Newtown, Conn., where he used a .223 caliber rifle to kill 27 people before turning the gun on himself. The dead included his mother, Nancy, a kindergarten teacher. Lanza's thoughts quickly went to his developmentally disabled younger brother, Adam, whom he began to fear was connected to the violence at Sandy Hook Elementary School, friends said. As media reports continued to connect Ryan Lanza to the shooting and plastered his face across world, …

frank rizzo

2:48 pm on Tuesday, December 25, 2012

here it is christmas day and sad little barney fife sits alone in his trailer home without any friends or family spewing his hate. sad little barney.   more ›

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