Photo gallery: NIU remembers
Students leave their candles in front of Cole Hall after the candlelight vigil held in Martin Luther King Commons at NIU in memoriam of the five students, Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter, who died.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Gov. Pat Quinn and NIU President John Peters along with family members, friends, students, teachers and other community members walked from the Martin Luther King Commons to Cole Hall to place wreaths at the future site of a memorial dedicated to the five students, Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter, who died a year ago.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Family members and friend Chris Podraza, of Carpentersville, signs the cross for Ryanne Mace at the five crosses in front of Cole Hall to near the future site of a memorial dedicated to the five students, Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter, who died a year ago at NIU.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
NIU Remembers a Legacy of Character service at the Convocation Center for five students who died in a shooting spree one year ago at the campus.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Gov. Pat Quinn, second from left, and NIU President John Peters, right, with family members, friends, students, teachers and other community members walked from the Martin Luther King Commons to Cole Hall to place wreaths at the future site of a memorial dedicated to the five students, Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter, who died a year ago.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Students leave their candles in front of Cole Hall after the candlelight vigil held in Martin Luther King Commons at NIU for the five students Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter who died in last year's campus shootings.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Students placed flowers, notes, and stuffed animals near the six crosses in front of Cole Hall at NIU for those who died in shootings on campus a year ago.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Family members and friends at the five crosses in front of Cole Hall near the future site of a memorial dedicated to the five students, Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter, who died in last year's campus shootings.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Pins and ribbons where handed out as students arrived at the NIU Remembers a Legacy of Character service.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Family members stop at the five crosses in front of Cole Hall near the future site of a memorial dedicated to the five students, Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter, who died a year ago at NIU.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Family members stop at the five crosses in front of Cole Hall near the future site of a memorial dedicated to the five students, Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter, who died a year ago at NIU.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Students brought flowers, notes, and stuffed animals to the six crosses in front of Cole Hall at NIU for those who died in campus shootings a year ago.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Family members along with friends, students, teachers and other community members walked from the Martin Luther King Commons to Cole Hall to place wreaths at the future site of a memorial dedicated to the five students, Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter, who died a year ago.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Hundreds of students, family members and friends attended a candlelight vigil held in Martin Luther King Commons at NIU for the five students, Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter, who died a year ago in the shootings at Cole Hall.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
NIU President John Peters pauses after family members along with friends, students, teachers and other community members walked from the Martin Luther King Commons to Cole Hall to place wreaths at the future site of a memorial dedicated to the five students, Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter, who were killed in last year's campus shootings.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Family members place wreaths at the future site of a memorial dedicated to the five students, Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter, who died in last year's campus shootings at NIU.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Students from the School of Theatre and Dance speak about the victims during the NIU Remembers a Legacy of Character service.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
The wall on Neptune West Residence Hall at NIU on Saturday.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Hundreds attended a candlelight vigil held in Martin Luther King Commons at NIU for the five students, Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter, who died in the shootings at Cole Hall last year.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
NIU students Caitlin Ecuker, left to right, Kaitlin Bujak, of Palatine, and Megan Harry, all sophomores attend the NIU Remembers a Legacy of Character service.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
John Peters, NIU president, gives closing remarks at the NIU Remembers a Legacy of Character service.
Hundreds marched with family members along with friends, students, teachers and other community members from the Martin Luther King Commons to Cole Hall to place wreaths at the future site of a memorial dedicated to the five students, Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter, who died in last year's campus shootings.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Hundreds attended a candlelight vigil held in Martin Luther King Commons at NIU for the five students, Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter, who were killed a year ago.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
William Blake of Antioch, left to right, Allyse Jerome, of Schaumburg, and Kevin Cielenski, of Glenn Ellyn draw with chalk on Neptune West Residence Hall at NIU. Blake who drew the huskie with a red tear said they did the same thing a year ago.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Family members stop at the five crosses in front of Cole Hall near the future site of a memorial dedicated to the five students, Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace, and Daniel Parmenter, who died a year ago at NIU.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
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