A bell-ringing ceremony and a virtual remembrance are planned to mark the ninth anniversary of the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino that killed 14 people.
Cal State San Bernardino — five of those killed were alumni — will host its annual Day of Remembrance event at 3 p.m. Dec. 2 at the campus Peace Garden. The garden is a memorial located south of the university’s Chemical Sciences Building, which was created in memory of the alumni killed in the attack. As part of the ceremony, a bell will be rung 14 times to commemorate each victim.
Earlier in the day, San Bernardino County will host an online moment of remembrance at 10:55 a.m., the time of the attack on Dec. 2, 2015. Thirteen of the 14 victims were county employees.
The remembrance will be held online through the following outlets:
County facilities will also fly flags at half-mast on Dec. 2.
The county also has its own memorial site, the Curtain of Courage, located on the east side of the San Bernardino County Government Center at 385 N. Arrowhead Ave. in San Bernardino. The memorial, which opened in 2012, has alcoves honoring each of the people killed, with custom touches celebrating the lives of each of them, chosen by their loved ones.
There will not be any formal ceremony at the site on Dec. 2, to allow survivors and the family of those killed their privacy.
On Dec. 2, 2015, county Environmental Health Services employees were at an off-site training event at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. An employee and his wife opened fire on them in a meeting room before they themselves were killed in a gun battle with police. The FBI later declared the shooting a terrorist attack, although the couple had acted independently of any established terrorist group.
