The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney's Office is inviting the public to a ceremony remembering and honoring victims of homicide in Clark County during the county's annual observance of the National Day of Remembrance for Homicide Victims.
The ceremony will be 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 18, in the sixth-floor Hearing Room of the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin St., Vancouver. The annual event is sponsored by the Prosecuting Attorney's Victim Assistance Unit.
Keynote speaker will be Robert Hampton Jr., 19. His mother, Heather Young, was murdered in 2004.
During the ceremony, victim advocates will read the names of people who died by homicide in Clark County in the past five years. Other victims who died earlier also will be remembered at their family’s request.
So far this year, 19 people have been homicide victims in Clark County.
In 2007, Congress designated Sept. 25 as the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims. That day in 1978 was when Lisa Hullinger, 19, was murdered by an ex-boyfriend. That year, her parents, the Rev. Robert and Charlotte Hillinger of Cincinnati, Ohio, founded National Organization of Parents of Murdered Children Inc., which now has 50 chapters nationwide.
— Source: Clark County
