friends. i know everybody has been hearing from loved ones. just shock. i got a note this morning from a friend in mississippi. his pastor wrote the congregation yesterday and said, as i write these words, the sun is rising on may 25th, 2022. another day of mourning in america after another mass shooting at another elementary school. as we pray yet again for those whose lives have been torn us under by a troubled soul wielding a deadly weapon, it seems important and necessary to me to say as a christian pastor that we try to find reasonable ways to reduce gun violence, and that is not political. it is moral. the church needs to have a moral compass which can tell the difference between that which is politically partisan and that which is moral. otherwise, our fear of being political may, at times, make us fall silent concerning matters which we should not be silent. as martin luther king jr. once widely said, the day we fall silent about the things that matter is the day our
also killed in tuesday s shooting. her mom says her heart is, quote, shattered to pieces and she will never stop thinking of her baby girl. the aunt of 10-year-old alithia ramirez tells people magazine she was at work on tuesday when she saw her brother on the news searching for his daughter. the last thing alithia reportedly gave her aunt was a drawing of sunflowers. rojelio torres is described by his family as a, quote, intelligent, hard-working, and helpful person. his aunt tells local media in texas it took 12 hours for them to receive word that rojelio was killed. 10-year-old makenna lee elrod had, quote, the biggest heart with a smile that would light up the room. a friend s mother says the girl and her daughter recently exchanged friendship bracelets.
circuits. prostitute? at first i was like, no, that can t be. reporter: but then the truth came crashing down. undeniable. kianna had missed a scheduled court date in santa ana for a prostitution charge. but wait a minute. you talked to her every day, texted with her all the time. exactly. and you knew nothing of this secret life of hers? no, nothing. what does it feel like as a mother to hear that s been going on all that time and you didn t know it? heartbreaking. reporter: when she heard kathy s story, detective trapp began to think she was on to something. then she discovered just 2 1/2 weeks after kianna had disappeared, there was another one. josephine monique vargas. she had a beautiful personality. they used to call her giggles because she always made people laugh. reporter: josephine s mother, priscilla, had been on the local news searching for answers for months, ever since her daughter left a family barbecue telling them she was walking to buy groceries
can t be. reporter: then the truth came crashing down, undeniable. quinna had missed a scheduled court date in santa ana for a prostitution charge. but wait a minute, you talked with her every day, texted her all the time? exactly. reporter: and you knew nothing of this secret life? no, nothing. reporter: what does it feel like to hear that? heart breaking. reporter: when she heard kathy s story, detective trapp began to think she was on to something. then she discovered that just two and a half week after quinna disappeared, there was another one, josephine monique vargas. she had a beautiful personality. they used to call her giggles because she always made people laugh. reporter: josephine s mother priscilla had been on the local news searching for answers for months, ever since her daughter left a family bar-b-que telling