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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 15 OcTOber 2019

This booking photo released by the Pelham Police Department
shows Dale Holloway, arrested on several charges following a
shooting at a wedding at New England Pentecostal Ministries on
Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, in Pelham, N.H.
Parishioners find Photographers take pictures of the statues unveiled as the crowd listens to speakers at the dedi-

cation of the Virginia Women's Monument inside Capitol Square in Richmond, Va., Monday, Oct.
other sanctuaries after 14, 2019. Associated Press

church shooting Righting 'sins of omission':

PELHAM, N.H. (AP) — Mem- murder, assault and other Monument honors Virginia women
bers of New England Pente- charges.
costal Ministries are finding It couldn't be determined By SARAH RANKIN
were chosen from more
called it "a new begin-
comfort and fellowship at whether he had a lawyer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — ning, a deeply significant than four centuries of Vir-
other churches while theirs yet who could speak for
remains closed following a him. Around a thousand peo- moment in the history of ginia's history.
ple filled Virginia's Capitol the nation, as we begin to "They were from all walks of
shooting during a weekend WMUR-TV reports that
wedding. about 30 parishioners trav- Square for the dedication address centuries-old sins life, from different times and
of omission." The artist said places," said Mary Marga-
Monday of statues honor-
Dale Holloway, 37, is ac- eled to Lowell, Massachu-
cused of wounding a cler- setts, for services Sunday at ing some of the state's trail- that as part of the art di- ret Whipple, a former state
blazing women, part of a rection and research for senator who served as vice
gyman and a bride Satur- CCF Ministries, while others
day in Pelham, New Hamp- attended services in Man- monument organizers say the monument, he looked chair of the Women's Mon-
is unlike any other in the across America and found ument Commission. "They
shire. chester, New Hampshire.
Stanley Choate, 75, the "I'm coming to get encour- country. a "shameful" lack of statues were famous and obscure.
dedicated to women.
Real women, even imper-
The new women's monu-
presiding bishop, was shot aged, and be an encour-
in the chest. Claire McMul- agement to others, that ment, about a decade in "Women have been ex- fect women, who have
the making, will eventually cised from the marble shaped the history of this
len, 60, was shot in the arm. God has this all in control,"
Authorities said parishioners Yolanda Spearman said in feature a dozen life-sized pedestal of history," said Commonwealth."
bronze statues dotting a Schwartz, who continued: Organizers say there's no
tackled the shooter and Manchester.
held him until police ar- Authorities say the groom granite plaza a short dis- "This doesn't change the other such monument
tance from the Capitol past, but it does begin to on the grounds of a state
rived. at Saturday's wedding,
"Everyone is still in shock be- Mark Castiglione, is the in Richmond. Girl Scouts open a room with a new capitol in the U.S. showcas-
pulled blue drapes off the view. And while not all ing centuries' worth of both
cause we never imagined father of a man recently
it would happen in church, charged with killing Hollo- seven figures being dedi- Americans may like this, it individual and collective
women's contributions.
cated Monday, including is happening nonetheless."
let alone in New Hamp- way's stepfather.
shire," said Magalie Felix, Brandon Castiglione, 24, is Native American chieftain The women, who also in- Susan Clarke Schaar, clerk
clude a frontierswoman, of the Virginia Senate and a
Cockacoeske and James-
a member of the Pelham accused of killing Luis Gar-
church. cia, 60, in Londonderry on town colonist Anne Burras a dressmaker and confi- member of the monument
Laydon, as the women's dante to Mary Todd Lin-
commission, described a
Holloway is due in court Oct. 1.
Tuesday. He has been "No revenge, no retalia- names were read aloud. coln, an entrepreneur, and marathon effort bringing
Ivan
Sculptor
charged with attempted tion," he said.q Schwartz educator and a suffragist, the project to fruition. q