How Tragic

That a school shooting would happen right in my backyard. What a shock when I was watching tv and the news crawler at the bottom says there's been a shooting at one of our high schools, the same school district as my kids' schools. And it happened at the school that my nephew attends. I texted him immediately! Luckily, he was home already, talk about relief!!

All the schools in our school district were in lockdown mode and code red mode. I texted my son at his high school. He confirmed that they were in code red mode. Even though they had already discovered the shooter had shot himself in his car, it was still scary to think this was happening here.

We see this happening everywhere, but you never think it will happen where you live, doesn't matter the neighborhood, city, town, population, economic status, it happens everywhere. I'm still in shock.

Such tragic events. So much terror for the students at the school. The shooter was a senior at the school, had been suspended this morning for something, came back in the afternoon with a gun and got into the school thru a back door. He shot the principle and an assistant principle, then drove away and shot himself in his car. Such a loss for his family. The shooter's father is a police detective in the area.

So why does this happen? What was so bad that he felt he needed to do such a horrific thing? He grew up attending schools in another city up until November then came here. I can understand trying to fit in in the midst of your senior year, I would not have liked it myself. All he knew was his environment he had grown up in from kindergarten up to the beginning of his senior year. Acceptance, especially so late in the game in school, it's very hard to come by. Everyone is already established with their friends, graduation is around the corner and plans have been made, how do you get into such a group, any group?

It's just sad and tragic. A huge loss for everyone. Students will now attend school frightened and unsure, their innocence taken away, who do they trust now? At young ages, our kids shouldn't have to face these types of tragedies, adults have difficulties dealing with emotions during times like this, how do we expect our kids to be able to handle it?

All we can do is pray, pray for the victims, pray for their families, pray for the shooter's families, pray for the students, pray for the faculty and all that have been touched by this tragedy in our community. Pray that we all gain our strength to move forward, find peace, and one day, find forgiveness.

***Post Note: The assistant principle died of her injuries last night. Prayers to her family. Continued prayers for the principle, still in the hospital.