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Families, students reflect on 5 years since NIU shooting

Every time he started to fall asleep and heard the house creak, Eric Mace thought it was his daughter, Ryanne, coming back to their Carpentersville home from a date.

It was always followed by the heartbreaking realization that it couldn’t be her.

“We had to get out of the house,” Mace said. “That was where Ryanne had grown up for a large portion of her life.”

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