City Heights Vigil Held to Honor Victims of Gun Violence in Wake of Mass Shootings

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“The reason why it feels like so much is because it is all happening at once and it’s very easy to be hopeless and cynical,” said Stacey Uy, one of the event’s organizers.

at a farm in Half Moon Bay. Both of the incidents involved members of the Asian community and despite them being hundreds of miles from San Diego, it hit close to home.

The specific names of the people who were killed were intentionally not shared at the vigil. The organizers said they would not do so until getting direct consent from the loved ones they left behind.

 

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