[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 26276]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE

  Mr. DURBIN. 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, December 5, 1999:
  Trennell Alston, 26, Baltimore, MD; Georges Ronnell Barnes, 29, 
Baltimore, MD; Mary Collien, 51, Baltimore, MD; Gilbert Gallegos, 76, 
Salt Lake City, UT; Donta Henson, 18, Chicago, IL; Nathan Hornes, 36, 
Oakland, CA; Makisha Jenkins, 18, Baltimore, MD; Christopher Jones, 17, 
Washington, DC; Greg Karavites, 38, Denver, CO; Jill Lundstrom, 25, 
Miami-Dade County, FL; Johnny Manning, 29, Minneapolis, MN; Mary 
Matthews, 39, Baltimore, MD; Bertess Montgomery, 87, Memphis, TN; 
Ramiro Peredez, 34, Atlanta, GA; Lionel Robinson, 23, Baltimore, MD; 
Patrick Michael Smith, 21, Washington, DC; Levanna Spearman, 23, 
Baltimore, MD; Alan Villarreal, 23, Houston, TX; Unidentified Male, 
Newark, NJ; and Unidentified Male, Newark, NJ.
  Five of the people I mentioned were the victims of what has been 
described as one of the worst mass killings in Baltimore history. Mary 
McNeil Matthews; her mother, Mary Helen Collien; her daughter, Makisha 
Jenkins; and two family friends, Trennell Alston and Lavanna Spearman; 
were killed one year ago today by four men who burst into Mary McNeil 
Matthews' home and shot all five women.
  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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