Anyone driving on the 13th Street Bridge just after sunset Thursday night may have seen a group of people holding candles on the northern crosswalk.
The group of 17 adults and a child gathered for a candlelight vigil organized by Indivisible Columbus and Indivisible Phenix City in partnership with the Under the Muscadine Catholic Worker community to remember victims of gun violence.
The group started from the parking lot of the Dollar Tree on 13th Street in Phenix City with LED candles in hand and walked to the midpoint of the bridge.
“Participants will hold candles as a symbol of light in the face of darkness and speak aloud the names of loved ones and community members lost to violence in our schools, churches, shopping centers, and neighborhoods,” a news release from Indivisible Phenix City says.
On the bridge, the group began to read aloud the names of the victims of some school shootings, spanning from the Columbine High School shooting in 1999 to the most recent school shooting in Minneapolis at Annunciation Catholic School last Wednesday…