[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 23888]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE

  Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, it has been more than a year since the 
Columbine tragedy, but still this Republican Congress refuses to act on 
sensible gun legislation.
  Since Columbine, thousands of Americans have been killed by gunfire. 
Until we act, Democrats in the Senate will read the names of some of 
those who have lost their lives to gun violence in the past year, and 
we will continue to do so every day that the Senate is in session.
  In the name of those who died, we will continue this fight. Following 
are the names of some of the people who were killed by gunfire one year 
ago today.
  October 24, 1999:
  Yvetta Boyland, 30, Memphis, TN;
  Andy Carr, 18, Atlanta, GA;
  Chun Man Choi, 27, New Orleans, LA;
  Javier Cortez, 29, Houston, TX;
  Anthony Jackson, 38, Dallas, TX;
  Ricky Harris, 22, Oakland, CA;
  Mary Mata, 16, Fort Worth, TX;
  Matthew Nimene, 39, Minneapolis, MN;
  Robert D. Steward, 29, Chicago, IL; and
  Jones Tiran, 21, Dallas, TX.
  Following are the names of some of the people who were killed by 
gunfire one year ago Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
  October 20, 1999:
  Rossi Anderson, 37, Houston, TX;
  Melvin Axler, 75, Miami-Dade County, FL;
  Steve Gaitan, 19, Miami-Dade County, FL;
  Michael Hanton, 24, Philadelphia, PA;
  Darrion Johnson, 28, Chicago, IL;
  Roasiare Morneault, 58, Hollywood, FL;
  Rafel Stokes, 41, Detroit, MI;
  Carlos Thomas, 23, Washington, DC;
  Richard Washington, 20, Chicago, IL;
  Manuel Watkins, 14, Dallas, TX;
  Betty Weaver, 56, Detroit, MI;
  Albert Winters, 24, Washington, DC;
  Shavon Young, 16, Irvington, NJ; and
  Unidentified male, San Francisco, CA.
  October 21, 1999:
  Alexander Bednar, 87, Seattle, WA;
  Kwame Bellentine, 24, Miami-Dade County, FL;
  Calvin Berry, 29, Detroit, MI;
  Antonio Davis, 20, Washington, DC;
  Jerry Dodd, 35, Chicago, IL;
  Vivian C. Geary, 72, New Orleans, LA;
  Devon Gross, 19, Wilmington, DE;
  Judith Herbert, 57, Denver, CO;
  Orlando Jones, 24, St. Louis, MO;
  Edward Morris, 29, Atlanta, GA;
  Marilyn Starr, 42, Dallas, TX;
  Nichole Thomas, 19, St. Louis, MO;
  Richard Wilson, 27, St. Louis, MO; and
  Kirk C. Wint, 25, Chicago, IL.
  October 22, 1999:
  Antonio Crawley, 20, Houston, TX;
  Juan Maldonado, 38, Chicago, IL;
  David Marshall, 18, Washington, DC;
  Thomas McEvoy, 47, Miami-Dade County, FL;
  Martin McCinigley, 35, Philadelphia, PA;
  Tita-Marie Murray, 36, Washington, DC;
  Huey M. Rich, 29, Chicago, IL;
  Eugene Richardson, 20, Baltimore, MD;
  Timothy Spain, 22, Atlanta, GA;
  Donald Storeball, 20, Detroit, MI;
  Unidentified Male, 37, Honolulu, HI; and
  Unidentified Male, 36, Newark, NJ.
  October 23, 1999:
  Juan Castellonos, 29, Dallas, TX;
  Deandre Clark, 4, Gary, IN;
  Clyde K. Edwards, 23, Oklahoma City, OK;
  Lu Hu, 24, Houston, TX;
  Walter Joseph Kurtz, 45, Baltimore, MD;
  Timothy Lockett, 32, Baltimore, MD;
  Timothy Massey, 26, Baltimore, MD;
  Juan Pina, 28, Dallas, TX; and
  Walter L. Weber, 77, North Little Rock, AR.
  We cannot sit back and allow such senseless gun violence to continue. 
The deaths of these people are a reminder to all of us that we need to 
enact sensible gun legislation now.

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