thought to be, up until this point, one of the safest communities in the entirety of the united states. as been raided that highly, one of the best places to live. so to have this community now be part of this legacy of mass shootings in this country, i think people are still in shot. you should somebody, i think it s playing right now, of this candlelight vigil that is happening as we speak, as we re talking. people hugging, people crying, people morning. but i still think there is this state of, you know, just staring and not believing that they re actually here. that s what we ve heard most. we ve also been speaking to some of the people that knew the victims inside. just abject horror and sadness, and again, that sort of out of body experience that they are connected to one of these shootings. i think it s gonna take a while for this community to really fully process the grieving process, so to speak, because we re still in phase one of this.
a story about memory, we discovered a deep irony. when it comes to the murder investigation that ripped open his childhood, the aaron of today doesn t remember a thing. did you know any of your history, about what had happened? i knew it in the back of my mind, but i don t have a memory of it happening. i know a lot of things that happened, but i don t remember how i learned them. he has no memory of bonnie or mike, his biological parents. nor does he remember telling brenda metters that his father shot his mother. so telling the social worker this story, i saw daddy hurt mom, that s not an active memory for you? no, sir. as he got older, aaron heard from aunt liz and detective hinson more details about his missing mother, bonnie, and of his own role in the investigation. was that kind of out of body hearing all this stuff coming into this thing about what 3 1/2-year-old you said and did? that s the way it feels, almost like i m watching a movie of somebody else. it doe
than two decades since he last saw his mother, bonnie. and in a story about memory, we discovered a deep irony. when it comes to the murder investigation that ripped open his childhood, the aaron of today doesn t remember a thing. did you know any of your history, about what had happened? i knew it in the back of my mind, but i don t have a memory of it happening. i know a lot of things that happened, but i don t remember how i learned them. he has no memory of bonnie or mike, his biological parents. nor does he remember telling brenda metters that his father shot his mother. so telling the social worker this story, i saw daddy hurt mom, that s not an active memory for you? no, sir. as he got older, aaron heard from aunt liz and detective hinson more details about his missing mother, bonnie, and of his own role in the investigation. was that kind of out of body hearing all this stuff coming into this thing about what 3 1/2-year-old you said and did? that s the way it fe