Peter Manfredonia, Connecticut Homicide Suspect…

Updated May 25, 2020 at 12:13pm

…Manfredonia was a student at Newtown High School in 2012 when 20 students and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in his hometown. Since then, Manfredonia has been active in raising money and awareness for anti-gun-violence groups, his social media pages show….

Manfredonia said money raised during the event would support Sandy Hook Promise and a foundation set up in honor of one of the children killed in the shooting, along with Connecticut Children’s Hospital, the Environmental Defense Fund, Planned Parenthood, the World Wildlife Fund, Students for a Free Tibet, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the American Brain Foundation. Manfredonia wrote:

CHARITY IS A POWERFUL TOOL IN INFLUENCING DEMOCRACY! We can’t always control politics but with the coordination of charitable effort we can still help influence a better future…

Manfredonia also said:

As a little foreword I would like to express my understanding of a concept that originated in Buddhism, the practice I adopted after going through the events in my home town on 12/14. This concept has followed me from China to UConn and everywhere in-between. This concept is called KARMA…

https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/peter-manfredonia-connecticut-uconn/

NICE Delegation Members Reflect On Foreign Visits

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: May 25, 2014 12:00 AM

Students that traveled to China were … Peter Manfredonia,…

Mr DeJulio, NICE program development, Asia project manager, NICE Club co-advisor, and Liaocheng Study Tour leader, said his delegation’s trip to China was “another good trip.”

The group that traveled to China visited the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, and other locations. Students on the trip also received kung fu lessons. Mr DeJulio said the group visited both the high school and middle school in Liaocheng, China.

Newtown’s sister schools in China and France are also sisters schools, and Mr DeJulio said an initial plan of collaborating with all three schools was discussed during the visit.

https://www.newtownbee.com/05252014/nice-delegation-members-reflect-on-foreign-visits/

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