Richard Hansen
Maggie Montoya a cue to focus her body and mind on the race ahead.
That was before March 22. On that day, a man entered the Boulder, Colorado, grocery store where Montoya was working as a pharmacy technician and opened fire. Ten people died, including three store employees and a police officer.
For about an hour, Montoya huddled in a locked room, wondering if she’d escape alive. She made what she feared was a final phone call to her parents. Her coach,
Richard Hansen, who usually guides her through repeats and race strategies, was instead texting her updates on SWAT team locations.
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To help show support for the victims of the March 22 shooting in Boulder, Colorado, an event called #Run4BoulderStrong will take place at 5 p.m. Mountain time this Saturday, April 3.
A 10K route is planned in Boulder for those who can attend, and runners across the country can take part by printing a bib and posting your run to the group’s Facebook page or using the hashtag #Run4BoulderStrong on social media.
Boulder, long a haven for endurance athletes, is still reeling from last week’s mass shooting. On March 22, a 21-year-old man opened fire at a King Soopers grocery store and killed 10 people, including a police officer and three employees.
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Lenice Blackbird, a 25-year-old member of the Omaha Tribe in Nebraska, left her home in late June to isolate after being diagnosed with COVID-19 and she never returned. Her body was found a few days later in the woods near a cabin in Macy, Nebraska, according to reports in the
Siouxland News.
In September, her mother, Donna Blackbird, stood with friends and family on the Omaha Reservation, holding a poster decorated with Lenice’s face and a red handprint widely used to symbolize Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) and told her family’s story to Duane Garvais Lawrence and his Facebook Live audience.