Friends and family last night gathered at Midland Heights field in Hamilton Parish for a candlelit vigil in memory of George Lynch, shot last year on May 5.Organised by the group Colford’s Family Against Violence which was set up after the February 4 gun murder of 29-year-old Colford Ferguson the vigil for Mr Lynch was the group’s sixth held so far. As preacher Scott Smith read out the list of names he said, “It’s almost becoming hard to keep track of them all. I hate to say it, but I hope we can get to a point where we can stop.”Organiser Keona Smith said: “This is going to be ongoing, for every victim. It makes my heart heavy to see a few people terrorising Bermuda, putting people under curfew it’s not right, and we need to take a stand and get our neighbourhoods back.”A small gathering of about 15 people came together in the field at 8.45pm and lit candles in Mr Lynch’s memory.“This is his legacy,” said wife Nekesha Holdipp, pointing to his stepson Enaharo Holdipp, 11, and daughters Emoy, four, Eshe, two, and Etana who, at eight months, was born after her father’s death.“Right now I think a vigil is nice, to keep his memory alive,” Mrs Holdipp said. “But are we learning? Are we really taking to heart what’s causing this? Are we all ready to take a zero tolerance stance toward the behaviours that led to this?“It’s the coldness in this situation, that’s what’s going to take time for us to deal with. Because we are one community, I don’t think we understand that there are such cold people in existence. It takes coldness to shoot somebody down.”Her mother, Rita Woolridge, who lives nearby and looks after the four children, said: “George was a wonderful man, very intelligent, very educated. He had three degrees and he was just on the verge of completing his CPA (Certified Public Accountant). I feel so sad for him, every day. I just wish people could know the kind of man he was.”The whole family had lived together in Mrs Woolridge’s home nearby at My Lord’s Bay.A 40-year-old Jamaican national, Mr Lynch had come to Bermuda in 2009 by way of Brantford, Ontario, and worked at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital‘s environmental services department.On the night of May 5, Mr Lynch was shot once in the chest as he stood with friends outside a house on Midland Heights Crescent in Hamilton Parish, just a short distance from last night’s vigil.His family described him as an innocent victim, with no links to Bermuda’s gang culture.The house where Mr Lynch was shot had been the scene of an attack on Temasgan Furbert in February, 2009. Mr Lynch visited that night to see his Jamaican friend Philmore Phinn, who just days before had given evidence in the Supreme Court against the men accused of assaulting his brother-in-law.When two masked assailants rode up on a motorcycle that evening, they found Mr Lynch standing alone outside the house.Mortally wounded, Mr Lynch was rushed to hospital by Mr Phinn, but pronounced dead. His killers remain at large.After a moment of silence, Mr Smith led the circle in a prayer for the Lynch family. Poems were read, and Mr Lynch’s stepson recited from the Bible, while Emoy Holdipp sang.Dee-Ann Martin, whose nephew Dekimo Martin was gunned down in May of last year, spoke to the gathering. Some wiped away tears.Mr Smith said he had been delayed on the way to the vigil because he had attended a viewing of Jason Smith’s body. Shot dead on May 1, he became the most recent in a litany of gun victims.“We are not past the worst,” Mr Smith said.In what has become traditional in a matter of just three months, the vigil concluded with a reading from Psalms 91.