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UC Berkeley News : Campus Groups To Hold Vigil Remembering Atlanta Spa Shooting, Anti-Asian Violence
On March 16, 2021, a mass shooter entered a string of Atlanta-area spa and massage parlors leaving eight people dead, including six peop ...
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2022-03-14
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On March 16, 2021, a mass shooter entered a string of Atlanta-area spa and massage parlors leaving eight people dead, including six people of Asian descent. A year later, the victims — Daoyou Feng, 44; Hyun Jung Grant, 51; Suncha Kim, 69; Paul Andre Michels, 54; Soon C. Park, 74; Xiaojie Tan, 49; Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33; and Yong A. Yue, 63 — will be remembered this Wednesday during a campus community vigil held by the Sproul Plaza fountain at 5 p.m.
Daoyou Feng, 44; Hyun Jung Grant, 51; Suncha Kim, 69; Paul Andre Michels, 54; Soon C. Park, 74; Xiaojie Tan, 49; Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33; and Yong A. Yue, 63 —
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Sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Student Development Office, Path to Care Center and the Student Learning Center, the event, “Cultivating Healing for our Collective Futures: Community Vigil and Healing Space,” will allow people to “mourn, process and heal together amidst ongoing waves of gendered anti-Asian violence, both systemic and interpersonal.”
The vigil will also be dedicated to building community through art and discourse. For more information on this event go here.
This press release was produced by UC Berkeley News. The views expressed here are the author’s own.
