Village of Ohio mourns victim of Sunday morning shooting

OHIO, Unwell. (KWQC) – A small Bureau County neighborhood mourned the tragedy of a Sunday morning capturing. On Tuesday night time neighborhood members held a candlelight vigil within the sufferer’s honor.

Lower than 500 individuals stay within the village of Ohio, Illinois. Organizers of the vigil held at First Lutheran Church stated the neighborhood remains to be shocked about the previous couple of days.

Jerome Lauer, or Jerry as most individuals on the town knew him, attended church typically along with his household on Sundays. The president of the church council Julie Anderson began placing the occasion collectively Monday. She stated the church needed to place the vigil on to indicate Lauer’s household the neighborhood is there for them.

“When one thing like this occurs it form of shakes your ideas about what a small city is all about,” Anderson stated. “It’s troublesome for individuals to simply accept that change in our world.”

Throughout a quick sermon, Lay Minister Jeff Whalen spoke about Lauer. He described him as a quiet man with a full coronary heart. Whalen stated the neighborhood in Ohio is sort of a household.

“Every single considered one of you is beloved. Jerry knew that,” Whalen stated. “Jerry noticed it right here at First Lutheran. Jerry lived it right here at First Lutheran.”

Particulars on Lauer’s companies haven’t been introduced but.

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