Victims Honored One Year After School Shooting

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Chase Lussier, 15, was her boyfriend, and the couple had a son just a couple of months before the attack. The pair planned to get married, and Chase often talked about how they would have a big family - enough boys to make their own basketball team.

Alex spent the past year watching little Ayden Chase Lussier take his first steps and have his first birthday - without Chase to share it.

"It was a happy time to see her son do things like that, but then at times it was hard for her because every time, she knew she had to watch him do any of this without him," said Sue Roy, Alex's mother.

Sue and Alex Roy planned to spend a quiet day March 21 visiting Chase's gravesite and the gravesites of other shooting victims.

Some ceremonies already have been conducted. St. Mary's Mission, a Catholic church on the reservation, held a week of prayer a week earlier. Every day, a Mass was held in honor of one or more victims, including Weise.

A memorial dinner for Alicia White was planned for March 25. Her younger sister, 11-year-old Andrea White, put together a memory book filled with pictures of Alicia. The event will include a buffet dinner and music.

Alicia was a cheerleader who wanted to go into the Army and eventually become an FBI agent. She loved school and worked hard to get good grades, Spike said.

Spike has two memorial tattoos of her daughter, including a portrait of her daughter with the words "Baby Girl" etched above it on her left arm.

Spike said she still has feelings of anger and depression. She has journals in which she writes letters to Alicia a couple of times a month, telling her how much she misses her.

"Even though it's been a year," Spike said, "I'm just devastated by it, by her being gone."