MORE ANSWERS HOPEFULLY TOMORROW
ABOUT WHY ALL OF IT TOOK WAS TO
BEGIN WITH.
IN OXFORD, VICTOR WILLIAMS WITH
LOCAL 4 NEWS.
>>Devin: ALL RIGHT VICTOR LET’S
MOVE BACK TO THE VICTIM’S AND
TO THOSE WHO ARE STILL TRYING
TO RECOVER AND THEIR FAMILIES
BECAUSE THE OXFORD COMMUNITY IS
ALREADY COMING TOGETHER TO TRY
TO SHOW SUPPORT FOR THEM, TOO.
>>Kimberly: WE HAVE PRESENTED
FEW VIGILS AROUND TOWN. IRST
HUNDREDS GATHERED AT LAKE POINT
COMMUNITY CHURCH IN OXFORD.
OUR TIM PAMPLIN WAS THERE FOR THE EMOTIONAL CAN LIGHT VIGIL.
THE EMOTIONAL CAN LIGHT VIGIL.
>> CLOSE TO 1000 PEOPLE CRAMMED
INTO LAKE POINT CHARGE.
>> DISPELLED ALL OF OXFORD
HURTS.
>> WORK AND LIFE PRAYER VIGIL.
AND FOR THE COMMUNITY TO TRY TO
MAKE SOME SENSE.
>> I DON’T UNDERSTAND.
I DON’T UNDERSTAND. >
MINISTERS ASKING THAT YOU KEEP
THE PARENTS IN MIND.
>> WHO AT 3:00 TO NOT HAVE THE
CHILD COME HOME.
FOR THE STUDENTS FIGHTING FOR
THEIR LIVES .
IF YOU ARE WEEPING AND CRYING I
WANT YOU TO WEEP AND CRY INTO
THE ARMS OF GOD.
>> FOR THOSE SO INNOCENT TO
HAVE TO MAKE SENSE OF THIS INTO
BE COMFORTED BY THOSE MUCH
WISER.
>> EVERY EMOTION IS ON THE
TABLE TONIGHT.
WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER AND
WE ARE NOT ALONE.
WE WILL GET THROUGH IT
TOGETHER.
AND WE WILL GET THROUGH IT
UNCHANGED.
>> THINKING THIS MOMENT OF ONE
OF THE MINISTERS SAID TO THE
OXFORD HIGH WHO’S WHO FELT
COMFORTABLE TO STAND UP AND BE
RECOGNIZED.
MANY TEARS BEING SHED THIS
EVENING.
>> SO TONIGHT YOU SEE SOMEBODY
ELSE CRYING , CRY WITH THEM.
TOMORROW IF YOU SEE SOMEBODY
CRYING, CRY WITH THEM!
WE ARE GOING TO KEEP CRYING AS
LONG AS WE NEED TO CRY TO
ENCOURAGE, TO BUILD UP AND TO
LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
ONE OF THE STUDENTS THAT WAS
SHOT AND TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL
WAS RELEASED AND IS HERE TONIGHT.
TONIGHT.
[APPLAUSE]
>> TONIGHT THE HEALING IN THIS
COMMUNITY BEGINS.
THAT IS IN OXFORD , LOCAL 4
NEWS.
>>Kimberly: OKAY TIM.
AT THE SAME TIME ANOTHER VIGIL
WAS BEING HELD JUST DOWN THE
ROAD AT KENSINGTON CHURCH.
WE ARE TOLD SEVERAL OXFORD
STUDENTS TO ATTEND SERVICES OF
THAT CHURCH AS WELL.
LARRY SPOKE WITH THE PASTOR AND
JOINS US LIVE WITH MORE.
LARRY.
>> GOOD EVENING KIMBERLY.
THE SERVICE HERE WAS VERY
EMOTIONAL.
THERE WERE A LOT OF STUDENTS
AND THEY WERE CRYING AND
HUGGING EACH OTHER AND THEY
REALLY WERE JUST TRYING TO
UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED. THEY TELL ME THAT THEY WOULD
THEY TELL ME THAT THEY WOULD
NEVER FORGET TODAY.
>> LET’S GIVE EACH OTHER THE
FREEDOM TO BE WHERE WE ARE AT A
PRESS INTO ONE ANOTHER RIGHT
NOW.
>> TEARS, HUGGING IN DISBELIEF
CAN BE SEEN ON MANY FACES HERE
AT KENSINGTON CHURCH IN LIGUORI
ON.
STUDENTS, PARENTS, FRIENDS MET
HERE FOR A PRAYER SERVICE
TRYING TO COPE AND SOMEWHAT
DEAL WITH THE TRAGEDY THAT
HAPPENED AT THEIR SCHOOL,
OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL.
THE PASTOR TELLS ME THAT THEY
WOULD NEVER FORGET THIS MASS
SHOOTING.
>> ONE THING THAT WALK ME
TONIGHT WAS LOOKING AT OUR HIGH
SCHOOL BOYS WITH THE
STEREOTYPES OF OUR GUYS ARE
TOUGH GUYS AND THERE WAS A GUY
IN THERE THAT WASN’T VERY
BROKEN EVERY SAD.
>> YOU CAN FEEL THE HURT INSIDE
OF THE SANCTUARY AND MANY
RECALLING THE MOMENT THEY FOUND
OUT THAT A 15-YEAR-OLD OPEN
FIRE AT THE SCHOOL. > I THINK
IT HIT ME LIKE A TON OF BRICKS.
AS I BEGIN TO PROCESS THE
ABSOLUTE BROKENNESS IN OUR
WORLD.
JUST HOW BROKEN IT IS THAT WE
ARE SITTING THERE AND ALL OF A
SUDDEN YOU ARE LIKE, ARE YOU
KIDDING?
IS IT REAL?
>> LEAD PASTOR SAID HE DID NOT
BELIEVE IT AT FIRST BUT WHEN HE
STARTED GETTING CALLS AND TEXT
REALLY HIT.
THIS WAS REAL.
>> THOUGHT ABOUT THOSE KIDS
FULL OF FEAR AND NERVOUS AND LOCKED IN THEIR ROOMS.
LOCKED IN THEIR ROOMS.
THEIR FAMILIES AND IT JUST , IT
IS HARD.
>> MANY WONDERING WHY. > WHAT
HAPPENED IN THIS KIDS LIFE THE
LEAD HIM TO A PLACE THAT HE
WOULD DO THIS.
WHAT KIND OF BROKENNESS WAS IN
HIM THAT THIS WAS THE DECISION
THAT HE MADE TODAY AND I THINK
THE OTHER PLACE THAT IS THAT
THE LONGEST BEING A DAD WAS THE
THOUGHT OF THREE FAMILIES
SHUTTING THE LIGHTS OFF TONIGHT
WITH OTHER KIDS AT HOME. >>
NOW MANY OF THE STUDENTS AT THE
HIGH SCHOOL THAT THEY ATTEND
CHURCH HERE.
THEY WANTED TO COME JUST TO
HAVE SOME TYPE OF CLOSURE OF SOME TYPE OF EMOTIONAL
SOME TYPE OF EMOTIONAL
CONNECTION WITH THE STUDENTS .
MANY OF THEM TOLD ME OFF, THEY
DID NOT WANT TO TALK ME ON, BUT
THEY SAID ONE THING THAT WAS