DeKALB – Dozens of people linked shoulder to shoulder in downtown DeKalb on Friday evening in an event honoring the victims of the Connecticut shooting.

As they memorialized a horror just a week old, they remembered another many months old.

“We stand here as one community scarred by violence reaching out across the cold, dark miles at night to another community, “ said event organizer Dan Kenney, referring to the Feb. 14, 2008, shooting at Cole Hall in which a former NIU student killed five students and injured several others before turning the gun on himself.