Funeral held for Dayton victim of North Carolina mass shooting 

DAYTON, Ohio — Dozens of mourners gathered on the Home of Wheat Funeral Residence on Thursday to have a good time the lifetime of Nicole Connors, a Dayton native who was killed in a mass taking pictures in Raleigh, N.C. on Oct. 13.

What You Want To Know

• Nicole Connors was a Dayton native and a sufferer of a mass taking pictures in Raleigh, N.C. on Oct. 13
• Her funeral was held on the Home of Wheat Funeral Residence in Dayton on Thursday
• Connors was considered one of 5 individuals killed within the taking pictures

Within the taking pictures two weeks in the past, a 15-year-old gunman is alleged to have killed 5 individuals, together with Connors, and injured two others. 

It was a packed car parking zone on the Home of Wheat Funeral Residence Thursday as family and friends celebrated Connors’ life with prayer, music and tales in her hometown of Dayton, Ohio.

The funeral for Connors, who was 52, centered round her love for her group. It was her laughter, persona and caring coronary heart that her associates say made her such a terrific particular person to be round. 

Connors leaves behind a husband, sister, brother, step-children and different members of the family. Throughout the service, Pastor Raleigh Thornton spoke of the legacy that Connors will now go away behind.

“Nicole has left an exquisite testimony of affection, devotion, perseverance, energy, software of oneself to life,” stated Thornton. 

For a lot of residents of Dayton, this type of grief is tragically all too acquainted. A mass taking pictures in 2019 within the metropolis’s Oregon Historic District by a 24-year-old ended with 9 lifeless and 17 injured.