On Oct. 28, hundreds of people attended a candlelight vigil in Chicago’s Federal Plaza that commemorated the 11 victims from a Pittsburgh synagogue shooting and the two African-American people killed Oct. 24 in a seemingly racially motivated shooting at a Kentucky grocery store, according to The Chicago Tribune.
The Pittsburgh mass shooting, which occurred Oct. 27 at the Tree of Life Synagogue, has been called the deadliest attack on Jewish people in U.S. history.
LGBTQ-rights activist Emmanuel Garcia said he attended the vigil because he remembered how many people supported his community after the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and he wanted to do the same for others.
The Tribune article is at www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-chicago-vigil-synagogue-victims-20181028-story.html.