More than 1,000 pay tribute to Maine's mass shooting victims
People gather at a vigil for the victims of Wednesday's mass shootings, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023, outside the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston, Maine. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — More than 1,000 people packed a cavernous church Sunday night, and hundreds more spilled outside, to hug, sing, weep and seek comfort in the wake of Maine's most deadly mass shooting.
The crowd gathered for the vigil at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston, where days earlier a gunman fatally shot 18 people.
Some people put their heads in their hands and wept when the names were read aloud. At one point, members of the crowd raised their hands to say "I love you" in American Sign Language in honor of the four members of Maine's deaf community killed in the shooting.
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