AURORA, Ill. — A candlelight vigil Thursday evening vowed to never forget the five lives lost in a workplace shooting five years ago in Aurora.
Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin said the tragedy forever changed the city.
“Five years later, we stand a profoundly different community in so many ways,” Irvin said. “We became #AuroraStrong.”
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“It changed me. It changed many of us,” said Aurora Police Chief Keith Cross.
On February 15, 2019, a disgruntled worker killed five employees at the Henry Pratt Plant in Aurora after a termination meeting: Trevor Wehner, Clayton Parks, Russell Beyer, Vicente Juarez, and Josh Pinkard.
Pinkard’s daughter, Emily, said she would always wait by the door for her dad to come home from work.
“You hear the word hero get passed around a lot, but if I had to pick my favorite superhero, it would be my father,” she said.
Wehner was an intern working his first day on the job.