NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - A rally to raise awareness about gun violence is set to be held in a town that experienced one of the worst mass shootings in the nation’s history.
Seven Connecticut organizations including Sandy Hook Promise and the Newtown Action Alliance plan to march through Newtown on Sunday afternoon wearing orange.
Twenty students and six educators were shot to death in December 2012 at Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary School.
This rally is one of many happening across the country as part of National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
Natalie Barden, whose brother Daniel was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting, is among those scheduled to speak, along with Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont and the state’s two U.S. senators.
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