Photos: Sunday night vigil for Orlando victims at Boston Common
Another vigil is planned for Monday night at City Hall Plaza.
In the wake of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida early Sunday morning, Bostonians gathered at Boston Common Sunday night to hold a vigil for the victims.
About 150 gathered at the Parkman Bandstand, according to The Boston Globe, to honor the victims and come together after the tragedy. Boston’s annual Pride parade passed through Boston Common just a day before.
Mala Maya, of Roxbury, spoke during a rally in solidarity with the victims of the Orlando shooting massacre that took place earlier in the day.
Nathan Bixby of Somerville planned the event, he told the Globe, as a way to handle all his emotions.
“I saw the headlines, and I read the first paragraph and I just couldn’t continue,” he said. “I kept trying, and I just couldn’t stomach it … this [vigil] felt like the right thing to do.”
Lauren Blasetti, of Medford, was one of hundreds who gathered on the Boston Common on Sunday evening.
At least 50 people were killed and more than 50 others were hospitalized after gunman Omar Mateen opened fire at Pulse nightclub in Orlando around 2 a.m. Sunday.
Hundreds on the Boston Common honored the victims of the Orlando shooting.
Mayor Marty Walsh announced that the City of Boston will hold a vigil Monday evening at City Hall Plaza at 6 p.m.
Xavier Guadalupe-Diaz was one of hundreds who gathered on the Boston Common on Sunday evening in solidarity with the victims of the Orlando shooting massacre earlier in the day.
A Sunday night vigil was also held outside of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Copley Square around 8 p.m., where church officials led the crowd in a “moment of not silence,” according to the Globe. Instead of remaining quiet, officials instructed the 300-plus people there to yell as loud as they could on the count of three, to release their anger, frustrations, and grief.
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