弗吉尼亚州切萨皮克洛伦佐·甘布尔在弗吉尼亚州切萨皮克的一家沃尔玛超市的大规模枪击事件中被杀已经过去五天了。他的母亲琳达·甘布尔已经不能做太多的事情，包括吃东西，因为她太想他了。
“这真的很难，因为我从来没有想过，在一百万年内，这将是我的孩子，”甘布尔说。“他走了，但他会永远在我心里。”
周日晚上，Gamble在切萨皮克山教堂的祈祷守夜前发表了讲话，该教堂纪念她的儿子和其他五名员工，警方称他们被一名商店主管开枪打死。另外六名在周二的暴乱中受伤的人也获得了荣誉。
这场90分钟的守夜活动充满了音乐、举手和对上帝的祈祷，是切萨皮克黑人牧师联盟为一个仍未从暴力中恢复的社区提供某种安慰的努力。
仪式结束时，甘布尔和她的丈夫阿隆佐与数十名在大屠杀中失去亲人的人站在一起，他们认识一个受伤的人或在商店工作的人。
其中一位是70岁的沃尔玛员工Shelia Bell，她和商店的管理员Lorenzo Gamble一起工作了15年。她说她也认识枪手，枪手死于现场明显的自残枪伤。
“说实话，现在我内心麻木了，”贝尔说。
在守夜期间，为每个受害者点燃了一根高高的紫色蜡烛。他们在赌博，43;费尔南多“耶稣”查韦斯-巴伦，16岁;凯莉·派尔，52岁;泰妮卡·约翰逊，22岁;布莱恩·彭德尔顿，38岁;70岁的兰迪·布莱文斯。
“我们无法理解你等待亲人消息的痛苦，甚至无法理解电话打来时的恐惧，”州参议员万可儿·洛克早些时候说。“但我们能做的是作为一个社区走到一起，提供一个可以依靠的肩膀。”
国会议员鲍比·斯科特(Bobby Scott)表示，靠近大西洋海岸、拥有约25万人口的切萨皮克市“现在加入了被迫承受这种难以忍受的社区的行列。”
市政府官员计划周一晚上在一个城市公园举行烛光守夜活动。
Black pastors group holds vigil for Walmart shooting victims
CHESAPEAKE, Va. --Five days have passed since Lorenzo Gamble was killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia. His mother, Linda Gamble, hasn't been able to do much of anything, including eat, because she misses him so much.
“It's been really hard because I never, ever in a million years thought it would be my baby,” Gamble said. “He's gone, but he will always be in my heart.”
Gamble spoke Sunday evening before a prayer vigil at The Mount Chesapeake church that honored her son and five other employees who police say were fatally shot by a store supervisor. Six others who were wounded in Tuesday's rampage were also honored.
The 90-minute vigil — filled with music, hand raising and invocations of God — was an effort by the Chesapeake Coalition of Black Pastors to provide some kind of balm for a community that's still raw from the violence.
By the end of the service, Gamble and her husband, Alonzo, stood with dozens of others who had lost someone to the carnage, knew a person who was wounded or who works at the store.
Among them was Shelia Bell, 70, a Walmart employee who worked with Lorenzo Gamble, a custodian at the store for 15 years. She said she also knew the shooter, who died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene.
“To tell you the truth, right now I'm numb inside,” Bell said.
During the vigil, a tall purple candle was lit for each of the victims. They were Gamble, 43; Fernando “Jesus” Chavez-Barron, 16; Kellie Pyle, 52; Tyneka Johnson, 22; Brian Pendleton, 38; and Randy Blevins, 70.
“We cannot know your pain of waiting to hear about your loved ones or even understand the horror of the phone call when it came," state Sen. Mamie Locke said earlier. “But what we can do is come together as a community and provide a shoulder to lean on."
Congressman Bobby Scott said that Chesapeake, a city of about 250,000 people near the Atlantic coast, “now joins the list of all too many communities forced to bear the unbearable.”
City officials have scheduled a candlelight vigil for Monday evening in a city park.
