(KNSI) — Two years have passed since a clinic was the scene of a tragic mass shooting in Buffalo.
Buffalo Strong Week 2023 will take place from February 6 through February 10 and include a variety of activities meant to foster compassion, comradery, and mutual support.
Happiness in Action, a service and social event where participants will assemble happiness bags packed with helpful items to be given to those in need, is listed within a schedule of free community events. A destress day will be held at the Buffalo Community Center on February 9, the second anniversary of the tragedy, to examine how stress, thinking, activity, and social contact can affect all aspects of wellness. People are also urged to participate in Light it Purple on that day. In order to show the victims, survivors, and their families that the community is with them, residents and businesses are asked to illuminate their homes and commercial establishments in purple on that day.
Burgers for Buffalo participants The Buffalo Culvers will take part, and a portion of sales will go to Buffalo Strong to assist neighbourhood health and wellness.
A screening of the movie Angst: Raising Awareness Around Anxiety brings the day to a close. Buffalo High School will host the showing, which begins at 6:30, although space is limited. Tickets should be reserved, people are advised. Click here to find out more.
The Buffalo Area Chamber of Commerce sells apparel promoting Buffalo Stong, including t-shirts, hats, and sweatshirts. The money raised goes toward promoting community wellbeing and mental health. Buffalo Strong gave the Wright County United Way, Central Minnesota Mental Health Care, Buffalo-Montrose-Hanover School District, and the Allina Foundation about $16,000 over the past year.
Gregory Ulrich is charged with entering the Allina Crossroads Clinic in Buffalo on February 9th, 2021, and firing. Lindsay Overbay, a 37-year-old wife and mother of two, died in the incident. Overbay attended St. Cloud Technical and Community College while working as a medical assistant at the clinic. Overbay was a St. Cloud State University alumnus as well. In the attack, four more people suffered significant injuries, one of them was shot six times. Additionally, Ulrich is accused of detonating two IEDs, one at the clinic’s entrance and the other inside, close to a desk.
For the murder of Overbay and four charges of attempted first-degree premeditated murder for the other four, Ulrich was found guilty in June 2022. In addition, he was found guilty of three counts of first-degree assault, one offence of second-degree assault, and one crime of discharging an explosive device. He was also found guilty of one count of second-degree murder while performing a felony.
He received a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
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