A memorial to honor the victims of the shootings at Jewish sites in 2014 is under development, according to a news release from the Jewish Community Center.
The memorial, which will honor the memory of Reat Underwood, Dr. William Corporon and Terri LaManno, who were gunned down outside Jewish sites in April 2014, will be unveiled on April 12, 2016, during a private dedication.
The sculpture will be on the west side of the Jewish Community Campus where two of the victims were killed.
In late fall 2015, a task force selected a design by sculptor Jesse Small, who currently resides on the West Coast. In Small, the task force found an artist who was “rocked to the core” by the tragic events, and shared their passion to send a powerful positive message, according to the Jewish Community Center.
“When people look at my sculpture, I want them to experience it as a memorial that is dynamic, a beacon for change that is ongoing and positive…[promoting] kindness and love over all else,” Small said in the news release.
“Like a beacon, [the sculpture] is simply an object with no energy in itself…Yet it creates a new channel for the community to express compassion, to remember loved ones, and to feel new hopes,” Small said. “All of this will emanate from the Jewish Community Campus where the tragedies occurred, where the healing can be publicly shared and experienced by all.”
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