i am sure that everyone already knows what happened, but since this is my blog -- i will tell you what happened yesterday from my point of view.
11:45 -- arrive home from church.
12 -- head to lesli's (my sister) so she can dye my hair, pull into her driveway & notice all of the people at her neighbor's house. go inside & ask jason (her husband, my brother-in-law) what happened & he said he didn't know but that they had JUST got home from their camping trip & then all of these people showed up.
12:15 -- jason asks lesli to please call over there because he is concerned & wants to make sure that everyone is okay over there. he said he was worried that is was something about kelly (their daughter who was in california visiting her boyfriend, ian). lesli calls over there & asks if everything is okay & before i knew it she was screaming 'NO' into the phone & was crying so loud that the whole house filled with the sound of her voice. lesli got off the phone & said 'kelly is gone, ian shot her in the chest'......genevah (her 11 year old daughter, my neice) started crying. & jason got up & went out to the garage.
12-3 -- so many people filled their neighbor's yard. so many young people outside mourning the loss of a sweet girl. people from next door came over & talked to lesli & jason -- to tell them what was going on & for a friend to lean on. fb is FILLED with people talking about what happened -- chaos.
5 -- a call from lesli to tell me that ian had been caught. & that he was dead. more sadness & chaos.
i wasn't close to either one of these people -- by any extent. i grew up with ian in school since forever & i watched kelly grow up next door to my sister for the past 8 or 9 years. either way it is so sad to see these 2 people's lives cut short.
yesterday, two young lives were ended way too short. nobody will ever understand why ian did what he did, but we know that wherever they are they are happy now. & with that comfort, i feel relief. there is no more pain or anger or suffering for kelly & ian. no more...ever again.
lesson learned: life is way too short. choices you make severely impact the people around you, so make wise choices. & tell the people you love that you love them every chance you get.
i am unsure about a lot of things right now, but i am sure of this: you only get one chance here on earth with the people you love, & that there will NOT be a day when you get to come back & try again.
prayers & love to both the roomes & yorks & all their friends & families.
rest in peace both kelly roome & ian york. i hope you're dancing with jesus rejoicing in the beautiful short lives you experienced (& also that you're finding out from the source why michael jackson turned white, haha).
xoxo. kathi
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