Evendays

On Tuesday evening, Wife, Daughter and I were heading home from the Marseilles Chorale concert in Geneva when the 10:30 PM news came on the radio. The reporter announced the arrest earlier in the day of a senior from Daughter’s High School at Daughter’s High School. The young man was pocketing a loaded pistol, along with two extra, full magazines. In his backpack left in his Home Room were extra munitions. Immediately we asked Daughter why she had said nothing. She said that they had known something was up, but that when teachers came by to explain later, they said the student had wanted only to take his own life. They did not mention that he was fully equipped to kill himself many times over. So the thing had slipped her mind.

Daughter said yesterday was a media circus. Barriers were put up to separate students from press. Reporters would interview any student who had anything to say. Rumors flew.

Wife and I could do but one thing: Thank our Lord for the protection of all the students. Praise to him for a brave teacher who kept the student talking. And gratefulness to the Father for the police who got it all right, and fast.