Once the crime tape was removed around Tops, the community on Thursday was able to approach a memorial with the names and photos of each of the victims killed in the shooting on Saturday.
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The community continues to grieve outside Tops, Friday, May 20, 2022. They gather at a memorial at the corner of Jefferson Avenue that was closed to the public until Thursday evening.
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Pall bearers bring out the casket after the funeral of Heyward Patterson at Lincoln Memorial United Methodist Church, Friday, May 20, 2022. Heyward Patterson was killed in the mass shooting at Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue on May 14, 2022.
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Visitors to the memorial on Jefferson Avenue pay their respects.
By Harold McNeil
and Janet Gramza
News Staff Reporters
The police barricades and yellow crime scene tape that surrounded the Jefferson Avenue Tops Markets came down Thursday evening, marking an end to one part of the investigation into a mass shooting that claimed 10 lives and wounded three others.
Once the crime tape was removed around Tops, the community on Thursday was able to approach a memorial with the names and photos of each of the victims killed in the shooting on Saturday.
The community continues to grieve outside Tops, Friday, May 20, 2022. They gather at a memorial at the corner of Jefferson Avenue that was closed to the public until Thursday evening.
Pall bearers bring out the casket after the funeral of Heyward Patterson at Lincoln Memorial United Methodist Church, Friday, May 20, 2022. Heyward Patterson was killed in the mass shooting at Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue on May 14, 2022.
