[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 10068]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE

  Mr. REID. 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 some of the names of 
those who lost their lives to gun violence in the past year, and we 
will continue to do so every day that the Senate is 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.

(These names come from a report prepared by the United States 
Conference of Mayors. The report includes data from 100 U.S. cities 
between April 20, 1999, and March 20, 2000. The 100 cities covered 
range in size from Chicago, Illinois, which has a population of more 
than 2.7 million to Bedford Heights, Ohio, with a population of about 
11,800)

  June 8, 1999
  Clarence Dorsey, 31, Oakland, CA
  Daniel Estrada, 18, Houston, TX
  James Holston, 32, Dallas, TX
  Cesaley Howard, 25, Philadelphia, PA
  Artis Ingram, 24, Seattle, WA
  Larone Jackson, Pine Bluff, AR
  Michael A. Jones, 25, Memphis, TN
  Corwin Mathews, San Francisco, CA
  Bennie McRae, 59, Miami-Dade County, FL
  Cornelius McCurry, 19, Chicago, IL
  Edwin Medina, 21, Miami-Dade County, FL
  Bayardo Monterrey, 38, Miami-Dade County, FL
  Rowland Patrick, 25, Nashville, TN
  John Sandifer, 20, Chicago, IL
  Patricia Whitfield, 50, Seattle, WA
  Champagne Younger, 6, Seattle, WA
  Unidentified male, 74, Bellingham, WA

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