[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Pages 26626-26627]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE

  Mr. KENNEDY. 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 14, 1999:
  Damon Flowers, 23, Baltimore, MD;
  Allen Groves, 38, Denver, CO;
  Lashawn Miller, 20, Detroit, MI;
  Robert Miller, 42, Detroit, MI;
  Isreese Pennington, 20, Detroit, MI;
  Fred G. Schermer, 88, Seattle, WA;
  Bruce A. Spangler, Madison, WI;
  Marcus Stewart, 29, Pittsburgh, PA;
  Roger Thomas, 49, Houston, TX; and
  Reginald Vernon, 33, New Orleans, LA.
  Following are the names of some of the people who were killed by 
gunfire one year ago Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
  December 11, 1999:
  Manuel Ayon-Coronel, 35, Detroit, MI;
  Joseph Brown, Jr., 22, Baltimore, MD;
  Tiche Carter, 25, New Orleans, LA;
  Marlin Cooper, 17, Chicago, IL;
  Durrell Dates, 27, Detroit, MI;
  Myatt Ellis, 16, Philadelphia, PA;
  Tisha Ford, 26, Baltimore, MD;
  Tyrone Freeman, 27, Philadelphia, PA;
  Arthur Green, 28, New Orleans, LA;
  Derrick Irvin, 21, Kansas City, MO;
  Andres Jimenez, 46, Miami-Dade County, FL;
  Connie F. Jones, 52, Tulsa, OK;
  Larry Knox, Jr., 15, Baltimore, MD;
  Drena Mines, 34, Atlanta, GA;
  Joseph Nevins, 46, Kansas City, MO;
  Sultan Ali Smith, 27, Seattle, WA; and
  Unidentified Male, 70, Charlotte, NC.
  December 12, 1999:
  Donald Adkins, 51, Kansas City, MO;
  Eber Yexsi Blanco, 36, Baltimore, MD;
  James Cox, 22, Philadelphia, PA;
  Quentin Dillon, 17, Chicago, IL;
  Alex William Gilliam, 20, San Bernardino, CA;
  Lonnie Hardy, 19, Baltimore, MD;
  Kevin Hunter, 23, Chicago, IL;
  Dequar Jarrett, 22, Detroit, MI;
  William Jefferies, 22, Gary, IN;
  Joshua Johnson, 18, St. Paul, MN;
  Carl W. Lawson, 33, Seattle, WA;
  Remilekun Macklin, 17, Chicago, IL;
  Anthony Meadows, 18, San Bernardino, CA;
  Karanja Miles, 25, Atlanta, GA;
  George Peck, 40, Detroit, MI;
  Tyreek Powell, 25, Trenton, NJ;

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  Thomas Rosas, 34, Chicago, IL;
  Taurian L. Smith, 19, Lincoln, NE;
  Mark Spicer, 21, Chicago, IL;
  Steven Steiner, 23, San Bernardino, CA;
  Robert Tucker, 61, Houston, TX; and
  Bijan K. Washington, 25, Seattle, WA;
  December 13, 1999:
  Barbra Amundson, 43, San Francisco, CA;
  Keith Barnes, 18, Kansas City, MO;
  Gerardo Garcia, Dallas, TX;
  Zhen Liu Guo, 47, Washington, DC;
  Everette Ragin, 20, Charlotte, NC;
  Steven Shepherd, 18, Kansas City, MO;
  Eugene A. Sims, 22, Seattle, WA;
  Jason Thomas, 19, Atlanta, GA;
  Marjorie Warren, 48, San Francisco, CA;
  Unidentified Female, Newark, NJ; and
  Unidentified Male, 35, Norfolk, VA.
  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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