University of California holds day of morning for victims of shooting

  • 10 years ago
Thousands of students, faculty members and other mourners remember the classmates who were killed in a rampage on Friday night.

Students returned to campus for a "day of mourning" at the university of California.

The father of one of the dead called for stricter gun control.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) RICHARD MARTINEZ, FATHER OF SHOOTING VICTIM CHRIS MARTINEZ READING A STATEMENT FOR ANOTHER VICTIM'S FAMILY SAYING:

"Not one more,''

Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California system and former homeland security secretary under President Barack Obama, said the campus should come together to overcome its grief.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) JANET NAPOLITANO-UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESIDENT SAYING:

"None of us wants to be here for an occasion like this, but we are. We're here because a series of violent crimes took the lives of six of our UC-Santa barbara students and injured nine more. We are here because in this moment of loss there is a huma

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