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New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz said he talked to Pinto's family, which is considering burying the 6 year old boy in Cruz's No. 80 jersey. Jack Pinto." "I also spoke to an older brother and he was distraught as well.HDMI Series I told him to stay strong and I was going to do whatever I can to honor him," Cruz said after the Giant's game with the Atlanta Falcons. "He was fighting tears and could barely speak to me."They were supposed to be for the holidays, but finally on Friday, after hearing much begging, six year old Charlotte Bacon's mother relented and let her wear the new pink dress and boots to school. It was the last outfit the outgoing redhead would ever pick out. Charlotte's older brother, Guy, was also in the school but was not shot. Her parents, JoAnn and Joel, had lived in Newtown for four or five years, JoAnn's brother John Hagen, of Nisswa, Minn., told Newsday. "She was going to go some places in this world," Hagen told the newspaper. "This little girl could light up the room for anyone."Avielle Richman was a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. A good mother, wife and daughter. Artistic, fun loving, witty and hardworking. Remembering their daughter, Anne Marie Murphy, 52, her parents had no shortage of adjectives to offer Newsday. When news of the shooting broke, Hugh and Alice McGowan waited for word of their daughter as hours ticked by. And then it came. As the grim news arrived, the victim's mother reached for her rosary. "You don't expect your daughter to be murdered," her father told the newspaper. "It happens on TV. It happens elsewhere."The upstate New York town of Sherrill is thinking of Cindy Mattioli, who grew up there and lost her six year old son James in the school shooting in Connecticut. "It's a terrible tragedy, and we're a tight community," Mayor William Vineall told the Utica Observer Dispatch. This year will be heartbreakingly different. The girl's grandmother, Elba Marquez, said the family moved to Connecticut just two months ago, drawn from Canada, in part, by Sandy Hook's sterling reputation. The grandmother's brother, Jorge Marquez, is mayor of a Puerto Rican town and said the child's 9 year old brother also was at the school but escaped safely. Elba Marquez had just visited the new home over Thanksgiving and is perplexed by what happened. Jesse and his parents were regulars at the Misty Vale Deli in Sandy Hook, Conn., owner Angel Salazar told The Wall Street Journal. "He was always friendly; he always liked to talk," Salazar said. Jesse's family has a collection of animals he enjoyed playing with, and he was learning to ride horseback. Family friend Barbara McSperrin told the Journal that Jesse was "a typical 6 year old little boy, full of life."Seven year old Chase Kowalski was always outside, playing in the backyard, riding his bicycle. Just last week, he was visiting neighbor Kevin Grimes, telling him about completing and winning his first mini triathlon. "You couldn't think of a better child," Grimes said. Grimes' own five children all attended Sandy Hook, too. Cars lined up outside the Kowalskis' ranch home Saturday, and a state trooper's car idled in the driveway. "We are greatly saddened by the loss of our beautiful daughter, Catherine Violet and our thoughts and prayers are with the other families who have been affected by this tragedy," Jennifer and Matthew Hubbard said. "We ask that you continue to pray for us and the other families who have experienced loss in this tragedy."Dylan Hockley, six, was one of the 20 children massacred by Newtown resident Adam Lanza in a classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday. D'Avino was a behavioral therapist who had only recently started working at the school where she was killed, according to Lissa Lovetere Stone, a friend who is handling her funeral planned for Friday. D'Avino's boyfriend, Anthony Cerritelli, planned to ask her to marry him on Christmas Eve, Lovetere Stone said. "I'm heartbroken. I'm numb," Lovetere Stone said. "I think she taught me more about how to be a good mother to a special needs child than anyone else ever had."Daniel's family says he was "fearless in the pursuit of happiness in life."