February 9, 2009
NEWS DIGEST
Organ recipients thank family of church shooting victim
By Claire Heininger and Rohan Mascarenhas
RNS-DIGEST-FEB09
CLIFTON, N.J. (RNS) Just a few moments after she met James O’Hea, Aley John leaned against him and pressed her ear to his chest. She wanted to hear her son Dennis’s heart.
“I want you all to have lives like Dennis,” she told O’Hea and four other recipients of her slain son’s organs.
The tearful first meeting on Sunday (Feb. 8) came more than two months after Dennis John Malloosseril, 25, was shot and killed inside the St. Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church.
The recipients of Malloosseril’s heart, lungs, liver, …