5th Anniversary of Hartford Distributors Shooting Marked

Editor’s note: We published this story earlier in the week, but here it is again in case you missed it.

On Monday morning, a vigil was held to mark the 5th anniversary of the shooting at Hartford Distributors.

According to WFSB, over 100 people attended the vigil.

On that day in the summer of 2010, a disgruntled employee of the beer distributor who had just been fired for stealing from the company, marched through the warehouse at 131 Chapel Rd. and fatally shot eight of his coworkers before turning the gun on himself as police closed in.

The eight Hartford Distributors employees who lost their lives Aug. 3, 2010, were:

• William Ackerman, 51, of Broad Brook
• Francis Fazio Jr., 57, of Bristol
• Louis Felder Jr., 50, of Stamford
• Victor James, 60, of Windsor
• Edwin Kennison, 49, of East Hartford
• Craig Pepin, 60, of South Windsor
• Douglas Scruton, 56, of Middletown and New Hampshire
• Bryan Cirigliano, 51, of Newington

The year after the shooting, hundreds of friends, family, and co-workers of the victims gathered on the lawn of the beer distributor to dedicate a memorial garden and sculpture to the fallen – eight stainless steel pillars erected in a clearing in the woods near the warehouse were the shootings occurred connected by a braided aluminum tube.

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The memorial is intended to represent not just the eight employees who lost their lives that day, but the community who gathered around the survivors and the victims’ families in the weeks and months after the tragedy. The pillars are made of mirror-finished stainless steel and contain an etchings bearing details of the lives of each of the victims, while the center will be hollow to allow family and friends to place “time capsule” items belonging to the victims inside.

Patch file photo.