They came to mourn Christina Combs and Beverly Gumm, and to pray for healing for Randy Combs, Jerry Gumm and Kentucky State Police Officer Jude Remilien.
But the many folks who gathered at the Fayette County courthouse plaza also on July 22 lamented the deaths of Sontia Simmons and Amia Cox in Louisville, and 15-year-old, Luis Jocsan Nanez Lopez. He was shot dead while trying to protect his mother from her abuser, and another 15-year-old, a girl in Elsmere shot and killed by a 15-year-old boy a few hours before the vigil started.
All of these people were killed or injured in domestic violence incidents in the past month. It’s a scourge in Kentucky that just will not go away…