Sunday, March 25, 2007
Living with memories of the Capitol Hill tragedy - Seattle Times
Survivors and victims' families find strength in each other.
Tony Moulton won't go anyplace unless there are at least two exits.
Marc Verebely couldn't go to work without taking regular breaks to crumple in a corner and cry.
Becky Martin pictured her son bleeding in the living room.
Such is the legacy of the mass shooting one year ago today on Capitol Hill.
Troubled loner Kyle Huff, 28, had been invited to a late-night party thrown by Verebely, Moulton and three other roommates at 2112 Republican St. Huff left the party briefly then returned with an arsenal, systematically killing six people and wounding two others before turning the gun on himself.
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Meanwhile, the victims' parents had their own brand of pain.
"People don't know how awful it is," Becky Martin said of losing Jeremy.
Jeremy's friends understood, though. So Becky Martin and Jeremy's friends turned to each other.
Admittedly, they weren't exactly Becky's type. She was religious and they were not. She was an ordinary-looking preschool teacher while some, like Verebely, had many piercings and tattoos. She lived quietly in Marysville with her 24-year-old daughter Katie. Jeremy's friends sometimes stayed up all night partying.
But immediately, she recalls, "they embraced Katie and me. We were glommed into this little huddle together to get strength from each other."
Martin made sure her son's friends sat with the family during Jeremy's funeral. "They took care of us, we took care of them," she said. "They were and still are in some ways like a family," she said. ...
Survivors and victims' families find strength in each other.
Tony Moulton won't go anyplace unless there are at least two exits.
Marc Verebely couldn't go to work without taking regular breaks to crumple in a corner and cry.
Becky Martin pictured her son bleeding in the living room.
Such is the legacy of the mass shooting one year ago today on Capitol Hill.
Troubled loner Kyle Huff, 28, had been invited to a late-night party thrown by Verebely, Moulton and three other roommates at 2112 Republican St. Huff left the party briefly then returned with an arsenal, systematically killing six people and wounding two others before turning the gun on himself.
...
Meanwhile, the victims' parents had their own brand of pain.
"People don't know how awful it is," Becky Martin said of losing Jeremy.
Jeremy's friends understood, though. So Becky Martin and Jeremy's friends turned to each other.
Admittedly, they weren't exactly Becky's type. She was religious and they were not. She was an ordinary-looking preschool teacher while some, like Verebely, had many piercings and tattoos. She lived quietly in Marysville with her 24-year-old daughter Katie. Jeremy's friends sometimes stayed up all night partying.
But immediately, she recalls, "they embraced Katie and me. We were glommed into this little huddle together to get strength from each other."
Martin made sure her son's friends sat with the family during Jeremy's funeral. "They took care of us, we took care of them," she said. "They were and still are in some ways like a family," she said. ...
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