BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) -
The Colorado theater shootings of this
past July left deep scars on more than just Bonnie Kate Pourciau's body.
The Baton Rouge teenager and her extremely close family all carry the emotional
scars from that fateful day.
When news spread Friday of a massive
shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut, the Pourciau family again felt
the sting of something so awful.
"I just started crying at the table," a tearful Bonnie Kate,
recalled when she first heard of the school tragedy, during lunch with
friends. At about that same time, Kathleen Pourciau, Bonnie Kate's
mother, was picking up Bonnie Kate's brothers and sisters from
school. When they piled into the car, she broke the sad news.
"Disappointingly, I was a little naïve about how heavy this would fall on
them." Pourciau said her children understood the horror, having lived it
themselves. "We didn't lose Bonnie Kate," Pourciau said, "but the shock
was still severe."
"I can't imagine the little ones having to go through that,"
offered Bonnie Kate, while her brother Noah said, " My first feeling was just
anger that someone would do that again," referring to the
shootings in an Aurora, Colorado theater that killed 12 and injured 58,
included his sister.
There will be far more questions than answers about how such
carnage could happen to elementary school children and their teachers. To
those grieving, Kathleen Pourciau prays that the suffering will have
friends with arms opened wide and that God will supply the comfort that family
and friends can't.
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