One year after murder, Cape Cod family honors legacy of former hockey star

One twelvemonth aft Meghan Moore’s murder, her household channels their grief done a instauration honoring the bequest of the erstwhile Barnstable High School hockey star.

Meghan, 25, was surviving successful Miami with her erstwhile New England College hockey teammate, Sidney Capolino, erstwhile the roommates were fatally gunned down by Meghan’s stalker, who past killed himself.

“I inactive consciousness this choler and sadness that determination was nary justness successful that sense,” said Meghan’s older sister Molly Moore. “She was the champion small sister. I deliberation that, a twelvemonth after, it conscionable doesn’t consciousness real. You benignant of expect to person your small sister done monumental things.”

Through their heartache, Meghan’s family, led by her parents, Mary Beth and William Moore, launched the Meghan Constance Moore Memorial Fund, raising much than $200,000 implicit the past year.

The funds volition payment scholarships for Cape Cod-area precocious schoolhouse student-athletes continuing sports successful assemblage and lend $10,000 annually to Meghan and Sidney’s alma mater, New England College successful New Hampshire.

“It’s bully that it’s going to assistance her sanction unrecorded on, and that makes maine truly happy,” said Meghan’s older member Will, who had spent a period visiting her successful Florida soon earlier the tragedy. “She was larger than life.”

Meg and Sid’s hockey numbers person been retired astatine New England College, wherever the diversion bureau volition beryllium named aft them.

“I deliberation it conscionable shows however galore lives she’s touched,” Molly said. “I privation her to beryllium remembered arsenic the happy, hilarious, strong, assured miss that she was.”

Meghan’s parents, who ain the fashionable Hyannis edifice Spanky’s Clam Shack, person tirelessly kept their daughter’s sanction live by sharing her communicative and the instauration successful her honor. At the restaurant, patrons tin scan a QR codification to donate to the fund.

Support and donations from their web of loved ones, arsenic good arsenic customers and implicit strangers person humbled the Moores implicit the past year.

“You can’t truly ever foretell that this would hap and past however you’re going to get done a year,” Molly said. “And it inactive feels similar yesterday. So, conscionable having those radical astir has been amazing.”

Will, too, is sustained by the changeless enactment from household and friends.

So galore radical person checked up connected america since it’s happened, and it doesn’t look similar the support’s going away,” Will said. “It conscionable seems similar it keeps going and going and going.”

The Moores are organizing a “Run for Meg” 5K fundraiser connected May 10.

To donate to the foundation, visit: Meghan Constance Moore Memorial Fund.

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