CANDLELIGHT VIGIL AIMED AT GETTING CLUES IN SLAYING SNIPER KILLED ONE VICTIM, WOUNDED 3.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - Family and friends are planning a candlelight vigil A candelight vigil is an outdoor assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset. Such events are typically held either to protest at the suffering of some marginalized group of people, or in memory of lives lost to some disease, disaster, massacre or other tragedy. Saturday night for a nightclub manager killed four months ago in a sniper-type shooting that has not been solved. Slaying victim Marshall Garrison's mother, Shari Martin, said she hopes the gathering will jog people's memories about the April 21 shooting in which he was killed and two other employees and a customer were wounded as they stood outside Schooner's restaurant and club. ``I'm expecting at least 300 people,'' Martin said. ``I've got 300 candles.'' Beginning around 8 p.m., the vigil vigil (vĭj`əl) [Lat.,=watch], in Christian calendars, eve of a feast, a day of penitential preparation. In ancient times worshipers gathered for vespers before a great feast and then waited outside the church until dawn for the liturgy (Mass). will be held in the parking lot of the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Center shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into in the 43800 block of 15th Street West, north of Avenue K. Relatives plan to stay until after midnight to coincide with the time Garrison died, his mother said. Sean Appleton, pastor of Quartz Hill Foursquare Church, which Garrison attended, will speak. Guitarist Don Villa, a friend of Garrison and his mother, will play music. Garrison and the others were hit by bullets while they stood outside the front door of the nightspot about 12:30 a.m. April 21, a Sunday morning Sunday Morning may refer to:
From about 80 yards away, the gunman fired nine rifle shots over the roofs of cars parked in the shopping center parking lot, investigators believe. The gunman opened fire without warning from so far away that the victims never saw him. Garrison, 41, was a father of two who was night manager and booked entertainment for the club. He was an Antelope Valley Boys & Girls Club Girls Club is a 2002 American television series created by David E. Kelley, who was also it's producer and executive producer. Only two out of a total of thirteen episodes created were broadcast on Fox Television in the United States and Global Television in Canada. board member as well as a youth soccer coach and referee A judicial officer who presides over civil hearings but usually does not have the authority or power to render judgment. Referees are usually appointed by a judge in the district in which the judge presides. . He also arranged the entertainment for the annual Thunder of the Lot charity car show in Palmdale. Other people in the parking lot provided the only description of the gunman: a thin Latino man about 18 to 20 years old and about 5 feet 5 inches tall, wearing a black knit cap pulled over close-cropped hair. Garrison's mother said she has been told that a man of the same description argued with and threatened her son about a week before the shooting. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) GARRISON (2) SUSPECT |
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