Event to be held in commemoration of 'compassion guy' David Breaux in Davis

(BNN)-- An occasion in celebration of David Breaux will be kept in Davis to bear in mind his operate in gathering the definitions of empathy.

Family and friends of Breaux prepared the occasion for 1 p.m. on June 3. They ask individuals to collect at Compassion Bench, situated at 3rd and C streets..

There will be a reception within walking range, however those details have not yet been shared.

According to the organizer, it is the 14-year anniversary of when he started gathering the definitions of empathy.

Breaux was among the victims who died in a series of stabbings in Davis. The neighborhood understood him well as the "empathy man.".

He would stand at the corner of 3rd and C streets and ask countless people what empathy suggested to them and compose the actions in note pads. Those notebooks would later on be assembled into a book.

The corner is also house to Compassion Bench.

" We would fill water bottles and things it with recycled material up until it was actually great and full, and put in a desire, and put it in that bench, so there's countless people in this town that have a wish and a bottle therein," Becky Marigo, with Paul's Place, stated in a previous interview.