Thousands honor Isla Vista victims at UCSB memorial service
Thousands attended a memorial service Tuesday at UC Santa
Barbara's stadium for six students killed in Friday's shooting and knifing
rampage in Isla Vista .
About 20,000 people were
in attendance at Harder Stadium, KCOY-TV Channel 12 reported.
"Too many people have
died and there should be not one more," said Richard Martinez, father of
slain UCSB student Christopher Michaels-Martinez, 20.
The university also
created 10,000 ribbons for the memorial to represent the “community’s
collective mourning, reflection, and recovery,” university officials said.
"We are here because
in this moment of loss there's a human desire to come together to reach out to
one another for love and support," said UC President Janet Napolitano.
"We are grieving
together today as a family, as the community of the University of California
In addition to the
memorial service, a memorial wall was set up Tuesday by students at Pardall Center
The service comes days after the shooting and stabbing
rampage by Elliot Rodger that left six UCSB students dead and 13 others injured
in the seaside college town, according to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s
Office.
The victims have been identified by the sheriff’s office
as: Veronika Weiss, 19, Katie Cooper, 22, Chris Martinez, 20, Cheng Yuan Hong,
20, George Chen, 19, and Weihan Wang, 20.
“This is a period
of mourning for all of us,” Chancellor Henry T. Yang said in a statement. “On
Tuesday we will remember and honor the victims of this horrible event, and come
together as an academic community to reflect, talk with each other, and think
about the future.”
The
school canceled classes and declared a day of mourning and reflection on
Tuesday, four days after the attack. It was just one of several events planned
throughout the day and week to help students grieve and get counseling
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