Mary Ciammetti, president and founder of Don’t Stall Just Call, recites a quote written on the back of a photo of her son, Christian Ciammetti, who died in 2015. | DYLAN LONG / THE TEMPLE NEWS
Temple University and the CTC Wellness Foundation held the fourth annual TU Memorial vigil at the Bell Tower on Tuesday evening. Each year, the vigil honors members of the Temple community who lost their lives during the past 12 months. Mary Ciammetti, founder and president of Don’t Stall Just Call, and CTC Wellness, began organizing the event after her son, junior landscape architecture major Christian Ciammetti, passed away from alcohol poisoning during the 2014-15 academic year.
The fourth annual TU Memorial vigil was held on Tuesday at the Bell Tower to honor members of the Temple community who lost their lives last year. | DYLAN LONG / THE TEMPLE NEWS
Dozens of attendees held lit candles during the vigil honoring members of the Temple community who lost their lives. | DYLAN LONG / THE TEMPLE NEWS
A group leads the vigil in singing, “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen. | DYLAN LONG / THE TEMPLE NEWS
Mary Ciammetti, president and founder of Don’t Stall Just Call, recites a quote written on the back of a photo of her son, Christian Ciammetti, who died in 2015. | DYLAN LONG / THE TEMPLE NEWS
Attendees of the vigil lock arms during a prayer led by Shawn Aleong, a freshman legal studies major and disability rights activist. | DYLAN LONG / THE TEMPLE NEWS
Daniel Duignam, a third-year Fox School of Business student, was found dead from gunshot wounds in his off-campus apartment on Diamond Street near 17th.
One Temple student is dead and others are injured after a crash on a Virginia highway around 2:30 a.m. Kammini “Mini” Ragoopath, 21, a sophomore kinesiology major and member of the Bhangra dance team, and
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