City and county
officials in Orlando, Fla., want the one-year anniversary next June of the
Pulse nightclub massacre to be marked with acts of love and kindness.
Elected
officials on Monday said that June 12 officially would be dedicated as “Orlando
United Day — A Day of Love and Kindness.”
Officials also
announced a series of events planned throughout the day on June 12.
An exhibit of artwork
collected from memorial sites set up around Orlando after the massacre will be
shown at the Orange County History Center, followed by a memorial service at
the site of the former gay nightclub.
Another
memorial ceremony will be held in the evening around downtown Orlando’s Lake
Eola.
Forty-nine
people died in the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history; dozens more were
injured.
In other news
related to the massacre on Monday, a lawsuit brought by victims against the
gunman’s employer and wife is being withdrawn from federal court and filed in
state court in South Florida.
Attorneys for
61 Pulse victims and family members of those killed filed the lawsuit in state
court in Palm Beach County, Fla., on Monday.
The change in
venues was made just days after a federal judge said in an order that he
doubted federal court was the proper jurisdiction for the case.
The lawsuit
claims Omar Mateen’s employer, security firm G4S, and Noor Salman, Mateen’s
widow, could have stopped the gunman before the attack last June but didn’t.
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