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On the recordJuly 15, 2010
Mr. Speaker, the people of New Mexico's First Congressional District are deeply saddened by the tragic shooting that took place at the Emcore manufacturing plant in Albuquerque on Monday morning. In a brutal act of workplace domestic violence, six community members were victimized, including Michele Turner and Sharon Cunningham, who were killed, and four others who were wounded. This kind of tragedy is every community's nightmare, but this tragedy must also recommit all of us to confronting and preventing the serious problem of domestic violence to insure that a tragedy like this never happens again. We are grateful for the heroic actions of the many Emcore employees, as well as Albuquerque's police and first responders who arrived on scene within minutes of the first call, and some of whom rushed into the active shooter situation without waiting for back up. We hold the victims in our hearts. We pray for all touched by this, and we will find the strength as a community to come together and overcome. ____________________
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Martin Heinrich
Democratic · New Mexico

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