AURORA, Illinois—More than 1,500 people braved snow and freezing drizzle to attend a prayer vigil for five slain co-workers Sunday, Feb. 17, two days after they were fatally shot at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant by a longtime employee who was fired moments earlier.
The Rev. Dan Haas told those who gathered near five white crosses erected for the shooting victims outside Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora that Friday’s “senseless killings” left their families brokenhearted in the city about 40 miles west of Chicago.
