MIAMI SHORES, Fla. — Gladys Ricart had ended a troubled relationship and had fallen in love again. The hopeful bride was wearing a white wedding gown with a lacy top and a tiara. A wedding videographer was recording her.
Ricart, 39, an accountant in Manhattan, was with her bridesmaids and 20-year-old son, getting ready to marry James Preston, who was waiting at church, when her ex-boyfriend Agustin Garcia fatally shot her.
Garcia is serving life in prison for the 1999 murder in Ridgefield, New Jersey. On Friday, in Miami Shores, Ricart’s niece Lethy Liriano, remembered her aunt and her legacy of awareness.
“Many people think that because someone is in a personal relationship, or it’s happening in their apartment, or their home that’s not their business and they don’t want to get involved, and I think that’s what’s causing the level and severity of violence that’s occuring in our homes and our families,” said Liriano, the executive director of Brides’ March, a nonprofit organization against domestic and dating violence.
Liriano joined demonstrators on Friday for the 15th Annual College Brides Walk at Barry University to mark Women’s History Month. She pointed to signs with pictures of victims.
“Folks who have so much to contribute to society, we are losing them because we are not holding people accountable,” Liriano said.
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