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N.Y. city remembers shooting rampage
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Mayor Matt Ryan wept Friday as he tried to console himself and his community one-week after a gunman opened fire on a classroom of immigrants studying English, killing 13 people before taking his own life.
"We have suffered a tremendous loss," Ryan said as 300 people gathered to mark the April 3 rampage at the American Civic Association building downtown. "We lost family. We lost friends. We lost colleagues. We lost neighbors. Our peace was shattered."
Before making a commemoration march, the group gathered in front of the Broome County Courthouse, several blocks from where Jiverly Wong, 41, barged in the front door of the ACA building and, without a word, sprayed the classroom with 98 rounds in just over a minute. Eleven immigrants and two association employees died instantly.
Police speculate that Wong, from Vietnam and a former center student, was angry over losing a job and frustrated about his poor English-language skills. Police have yet to establish whether he was targeting someone at the center. After the shootings, police revealed Wong sent a rambling letter to a Syracuse television station complaining about police harassment and blaming them for his problems.
 
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