RIP Christina Grimmie

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/voice-alum-christina-grimmie-shot-orlando-concert-critical/story?id=39774979

I stumbled upon Christina Grimmie last year while flipping around on YT and was captivated by her voice and stage presence for being so young. Today I heard that she's been shot dead after a concert by some crazy person, such a sad tragedy. During her short career she had the furtunate to touch alot of people with her voice so she will be remembered for that.

Ed Sheeran and Christina Grimmie - All of the Stars

RIP Christina

[Prog Snob]

Any motives?

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

Any motives?

The only thing i've heard is that the shooter traveled to Orlando with the intent to shoot her, he was armed with two guns.

[Prog Snob]

It's sad...truly sad. One would think this is a jealous ex or something, but from what I've read they haven't been able to figure out their connection.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

Yea it's just sad, 22 years old and so full of life because her career is going well and then some twisted fan/person decides to execute her infront of all her fans by just going up to her and shoot her and then cowardly take his own life.

......and then we talk about guns
......and then we talk about mental health
......and then nothing happens

[kirksnosehair]

Fucking humans. 

[lonestar]

So fucking sad.

[TheCountOfNYC]

Yea it's just sad, 22 years old and so full of life because her career is going well and then some twisted fan/person decides to execute her infront of all her fans by just going up to her and shoot her and then cowardly take his own life.

......and then we talk about guns
......and then we talk about mental health
......and then nothing happens

This is the big thing right here. If the US would change as much as it talks about changing, this country would be a much better place in a matter of one year.

[Ben_Jamin]

Yea it's just sad, 22 years old and so full of life because her career is going well and then some twisted fan/person decides to execute her infront of all her fans by just going up to her and shoot her and then cowardly take his own life.

......and then we talk about guns
......and then we talk about mental health
......and then nothing happens

This is the big thing right here. If the US would change as much as it talks about changing, this country would be a much better place in a matter of one year.

Sadly it won't unless the people of this country change. The leaders can change, yet it's the people who determine what kind of change.

[KevShmev]

The gun stuff has been talked about ad nauseam, but the saddest thing is we can change every law in the word and it still won't be enough to stop a lone wolf intent on killing one person like this.  You can't get every gun off the street, every mentally unstable person in a hospital, etc.  More should be done, of course, but if one person gets it in their head that they want to kill one person, unless they let it slip to someone, or the possible victim is guarded well (politician, for example), it is hard to stop it. Which sucks. Heck, just look at John Lennon.

That all aside, terrible tragedy.

[V_R11]

This makes me both sad and angry. Completely unnecessary and so wrong on so many levels. Fuck she was 22,an inspiration to many,amazingly talented and completely innocent. It breaks my heart that people can be so cruel

[gmillerdrake]

Just saw an article where Adam Levine is paying for this woman's funeral costs. I know he's super loaded and these costs will probably amount to what he spends on Starbucks in a year....but I thought that was a kind gesture being that funeral costs can add up quickly, especially 'unplanned' ones like this. He could have easily just left his sympathies in the social media world and that be that but he didn't.....

[Kotowboy]

I'm not an atheist but agree that saying " thoughts and prayers for the victims " is just a way of making you look good without actually doing a thing.

[NunoTenniscourt]

I was there exactly two weeks before this happened for a Buckethead show. I live less than a mile from Plaza Live. Security put *me* through the ringer, yet let a few of my other
friends who had arrived earlier right through. I told my friends their lame security would get them in trouble some day, but I don't think any of us believed for a moment an artist would be gunned down there two weeks later, nor did we think this poor girl's tragedy would be overshadowed by the Pulse (which is about 2 miles from Plaza Live) shooting the very next night.

I don't know if it's just coincidence, but attendance in many bars and clubs in the area has greatly diminished since then. It's been a horrible summer here.