52nd Annual Country Music Association Awards Begins with Remembrance of Borderline Shooting Victims
/Garth Brooks began the 52nd Annual Country Music Association (CMA) Awards on November 14th with a remembrance and moment of silence for the victims of the Borderline Bar & Grill shooting one week prior.
Brooks said “On behalf of our country music community, I want to say that tonight’s show is lovingly dedicated to the 12 individuals whom we lost far too soon just a week ago tonight at the Borderline in Thousand Oaks, California,” Brooks said, referring to those who died after a gunman opened fire at the country dance bar. Tonight, let’s celebrate their lives. Let the music unite us with love, and their enduring memory.”
IN MEMORIAM
November 7, 2018
Sean Adler
Cody Coffman
Blake Dingman
Jake Dunham
Sgt. Ron Helus
Alaina Housley
Daniel Manrique
Justin Meek
Mark Meza Jr.
Kristina Morisette
Telemachus Orfanos
Noel Sparks