A stranger is running this month's Boston Marathon to honor Jeremy Richman, the father of a Sandy Hook school shooting victim who died last week by apparent suicide.
"I just want this to be in honor of Jeremy, in honor of Avielle, in honor of everybody that was effected at Sandy Hook and afterward," Dan Friedman, 30, told ABC News. "And all the various kind of tragedies where people have suffered so senselessly."
Avielle was among the 26 students and educators killed in the Dec. 2012 shooting at Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School. "A light bulb kind of went off in his head," Friedman said of his father, who decided running in Richman's honor would be "one small thing to continue the much larger mission that Jeremy and his family had started in the wake of the death of their daughter."
Jennifer Hensel and Jeremy Richman, the parents of Avielle Richman, the father of Benjamin Wheeler, 6, victims of the Dec. 14, 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, attend the launch of The Sandy Hook Promise, a non-profit created in response to the shooting in Newtown, Conn. Jan. 14, 2013. Friedman said Richman's suicide "really puts into light the ripple effects of these tragedies," including Parkland.In the days before Richman's death, two survivors of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida,
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