Sculpture to be lit orange for National Gun Violence Prevention Awareness Day

The Purdue "Unfinished Block P" sculpture will be lit in orange for National Gun Violence Prevention Awareness Day today (June 2) as part of the "Wear Orange" campaign against gun violence. The request to make the sculpture orange was made by a group of Purdue faculty, students and parents.

Two Chicago teens started the movement to bring awareness to daily gun violence after their friend was killed in January 2013.

Other Indiana monuments also will be lit, including the Downtown Transit Center in Bloomington, City Center Fountain in Carmel and Indianapolis Power and Light Building on Monument Circle. They will join a host of other landmarks across the nation, including the Empire State Building and Niagara Falls.

For a full list of landmarks participating, click here.

Lafayette Mayor Tony Roswarski and West Lafayette Mayor John Dennis will join more than 100 mayors nationwide who also are getting involved with the "Wear Orange" campaign.

In Lafayette, members of the local Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America group will host a march for gun violence awareness at noon today (June 2) from the Tippecanoe County Courthouse to Lafayette City Hall. For more information, contact Julia Chester at 765-426-3150 or julia_chester@yahoo.com.

Both Dennis and Roswarski proclaimed Thursday (June 2) as Gun Violence Prevention Awareness Day to remember all of those affected by gun violence.