Aurora's 'Cross Man' travels the country honoring lives lost to gun violence. Now he's doing it in his hometown.
by Denise Crosby, The Beacon-News
Feb 22, 2019
3 minutes
AURORA, Ill. - As Greg Zanis puts the finishing touches on the most recent of the tens of thousands of crosses he's made in his Aurora garage for shooting victims across the country, he sighs.
So much of what the "Cross Man" does seems almost routine. Fielding calls from the national media. Talking to the families of shooting victims. And tracing ever so carefully - first in pencil, then in black permanent marker - the names of this country's five latest mass shooting victims.
Then, one by one,
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