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Tuesday marks one year anniversary of Dayton mass shooting

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Tuesday marks one year anniversary of Dayton mass shooting
Tuesday marks one year anniversary of Dayton mass shooting

A gunmen shot and killed nine people on Aug.

4, 2019 in Dayton's Historic Oregon District.

The city will honor the victims by taking nine minutes of silence on Tuesday night.

NEW THIS MORNING...TODAY MARKONE DAY SINCE NINE PEOPLE WERESHOT AND KILLED IN DAYTON OHIO.MEMORIALS WILL BE MOSTLYVIRTUAL TODAY..WITH NINEMINUTES OF SILENCE....AND AVIDEO STREAMED ONLINE STARTINGAT 8-04 TONIGHT.WCPO 9 NEWSANCHOR EVAN MILLWARD SHARESHOW HEALING IS SLOW... BUT THECITY IS RESILIENT.Evan - It was a massacre- some unknown war on aneighborhood Dayton holds sodear.

Dion Green was here thatnight and hasn't been backsince.

0046 Evan: What doesAugust Fourth mean to you?DionGreen/Oregon District ShootingSurvivor: Oh man.

AugustFourth is one year that Ihaven't spoke to my father,one year I haven't seen himand one year that's just beenhard but I'm trying to makesomething positive out of it.HIS DAD - DERRICK FUDGE - DIEDIN HIS ARMS ON FIFTH STREETTHAT NIGHT.GREEN'S WAY OFSTARTING THE HEALING PROCESSIS THIS MOTIVATIONAL BOOK.ANDA FOUNDATION IN HIS FATHER'SNAME - TO HELP OTHER VICTIMSOF VIOLENCE.FUDGE WAS ONE OFNINE KILLED ONE YEAR AGO.DOZENS MORE WERE HURT.THESHOOTING SHATTERED THE WHOLECITY - BUT NONE MORE THAN THEM.Mayor Nan Whaley/(D) - Dayton2247 It's going to be a reallydifficult day for all of us,but certainly for them it'sgoing to be a very very hardday.AND SO EVEN THOUGH HEKNOWS HOW HARD IT WILL BE.DIONGREEN WILL BE BACK ON FIFTHSTREET TODAY.Green 1435 I haveto be, I have to be, like, I'mgoing to light a candle andpay my respects to all thevictims and the survivors.

Andif they're there, show themsupport because we have toshow each other support.Millward - How this towntriumphs over not one butmultiple tragedies - allevening as we remember thoselost one year ago here onWCPO9N.

In Dayton's OregonDistrict, I'm EM.

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