WAITING FOR JUSTICE VIGIL STIRS MEMORY OF UNSOLVED SLAYING.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - Marshall Garrison's friends and family gathered Saturday night to light candles and pray in the 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 parking lot from which the bullet was fired that killed him four months ago. The 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. at the opposite corner of the parking lot from Schooner's restaurant, where Garrison was night manager, was intended to renew attention to the April 21 slaying, which has not been solved. ``It's a sober time and it should be, because we've got something that's left undone,'' said the Rev. Sean Appleton, pastor of Quartz Hill Foursquare Church, which Garrison attended. About 20 people, including Garrison's mother and 12-year-old daughter, stood in a circle holding lit candles as friend Don Villa played the guitar and sang songs, concluding with ``Amazing Grace "Amazing Grace" is a well-known Christian hymn. The words were written late in 1772 by Englishman John Newton. They first appeared in print in Newton's Olney Hymns, 1779 that he worked on with William Cowper. .'' Garrison's mother, Shari Martin, said she wants her son's killer identified and arrested. ``I'm a mother fighting for justice,'' Martin said. Garrison, 40, was killed and two other employees and a customer wounded in a sniper-type shooting about 12:30 a.m. April 21 as they stood outside Schooner's front door. The gunman - described later by a witness as a young, thin Latino man - opened fire on the group from some 80 yards away with a rifle, shooting nine bullets across the roofs of cars. The gunman fired without warning from so far away the victims never saw him, investigators said. Martin said she was told a man of the same description had argued with and threatened her son a week before the shooting. Married, with a 12-year-old daughter and a 4-year-old son, Garrison was an 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 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. He also arranged the entertainment for the annual Thunder on the Lot charity car show in Palmdale. A person who had been in the parking that night helped investigators come up with a composite drawing of the killer. He was described as about 18 or 20 years old, 5 feet 5 inches tall, and wearing a black knit cap pulled over close-cropped hair. Martin was disappointed that none of the civic leaders she invited to the vigil showed up, especially after all the attention given to the kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. and rescue two weeks ago of two Antelope Valley teenagers. ``The girls are alive and the perpetrator A term commonly used by law enforcement officers to designate a person who actually commits a crime. is dead. My son is dead and the perpetrator is alive,'' Martin said. ``Where are my leaders? This is my community. This was Marshall's community. He did a lot for it.'' CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Marshall Garrison's mother, Shari Martin, center, and others pray and pay tribute Saturday to the slain restaurant manager, who was killed by a rifle-wielding assailant April 21 near Schooner's Restaurant in Lancaster. (2 -- color) Tiffany Tiffany, Tiffanie (UK) a semi-longhaired version of the Burmese cat. It has a fine, silky coat in many colors. Garrison, the victim's daughter, and Shari Martin, the victim's mother, mourn mourn v. mourned, mourn·ing, mourns v.intr. 1. To feel or express grief or sorrow. See Synonyms at grieve. 2. Marshall Garrison at Saturday's vigil at a Lancaster parking lot. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News (3 -- color) GARRISON |
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