I found out last evening that the young man with the bloodied torso who has been pictured being carried from the building is a high school friend of my eldest daughter and was in my home many times. He's a great kid - bright, polite, and like all the others, had no reason to be a recipient of this needless horror. When I called my daughter to inform her, I then came to find that the first young lady murdered grew up with and was a good friend of a young lady that my daughter works closely. I was deeply saddened when this all took place. It's become doubly heart wrenching when you have even the remotest personal connection with these innocent victims - each and every one robbed of lives filled with promise.
