![]() ![]() Speaker, I'd like to ask for a moment of silence as we remember these victims and pray for healing in our community. I know we will lean on each other during this trying time. As we mourn this loss, I know that our Sumter community is tight-knit, strong, and a proud military community. Please join me in praying for the victims, the family, our law enforcement and first responders who have been on the scene since, and our larger community in dealing with this loss. While our community grapples with this loss, I wanted to ask you all to continue to keep us in your prayers. My heart goes out to them, and I have been thinking of and praying for them every day since last week. The loss, especially to the surviving family, is incomprehensible. This tragedy, seemingly a senseless act of the ultimate violence, has shaken our community in Sumter. This included a beloved member of our military community, as well as three children. One week ago, on Tuesday March 21, we lost five of our own in a horrific domestic mass shooting. I wanted to take a moment today to acknowledge a recent tragedy in my district. SMITH made a statement relative to the domestic mass shooting in Sumter County. SMITH moved that when the House adjourns, it adjourn in memory of Aayden Holliday-Slacks, Aason Holliday-Slacks, Ava Holliday, and Command Sergeant Major Carlos Evans, which was agreed to. Pursuant to Rule 6.3, the House of Representatives was led in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America by the SPEAKER.Īfter corrections to the Journal of the proceedings of Wednesday, March 15, the SPEAKER ordered it confirmed. Heal the wounds, those seen and those unseen, of our brave warriors who suffer and sacrifice for our freedom. Continue Your blessings on our service men and women as they give their time and their effort to keep our Nation free and safe. Bless our World, Nation, President, State, Governor, Speaker, Staff, and all who make this great cause worthwhile. Guide these men and women to do the right thing for the right reason. Bless and keep our defenders of freedom and first responders. Guide them in the way You have called them. Lord God, You have called these women and men to work for the people of South Carolina. Our thought for today is from Proverbs 16:24: "Gracious words are a honey cone, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." REGULAR SESSION BEGINNING TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2023ĭeliberations were opened with prayer by Rev. House Journal for - South Carolina Legislature Online South Carolina General Assembly
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