[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12785]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR LAFAYETTE SHOOTING VICTIMS

  (Mr. BOUSTANY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOUSTANY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with a heavy heart in the 
aftermath of a terrible and horrific act of violence that killed two 
innocent victims and injured nine others in my hometown of Lafayette, 
Louisiana, last Thursday night.
  Lafayette, my hometown, is known for its joie de vivre. We work 
together. We play hard together. It is a great community, close-knit, 
and has been recognized as the happiest city in America by an 
organization.
  But last Thursday our community was shaken to the core as a man, a 
lone gunman, opened fire at the Grand Theatre on Johnston Street, 
killing Jillian Johnson, a 31-year-old musician, local artist, and 
local businesswoman, and Mayci Breaux, 21, a radiology student. Nine 
others were injured in this attack; senseless, horrible violence.
  It would have been a lot worse if not for the heroics of our law 
enforcement, who moved promptly on the scene and got control of the 
situation.
  But I want to relay one other instance of heroic activity. One 
schoolteacher jumped in front of another schoolteacher to save her life 
and literally did. Both were injured. One of them had the wherewithal 
to hit the alarm to signal that something bad was happening.
  Last night I attended a vigil for the victims at the Cathedral of St. 
John the Evangelist, where our community took time to reflect upon the 
lives that were lost.
  Now, as our community tries to make sense and come to grips with what 
happened, I just simply ask my colleagues to stand with me and my 
colleagues from our Louisiana delegation and with the community of 
Lafayette for a moment of silence.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members will please stand and observe a 
moment of silence.

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