MUSKOGEE On the front porch of a small house in this eastern Oklahoma town, a collection of candles, balloons and stuffed animals is growing by the day.
The makeshift memorial expanded Thursday around noon when a family of seven parked their minivan in front of the house, stepped into a snapping wind and gently added their own tokens of grief and respect.
Timothy Goforth and Brittany Lorimer, who have five children and a baby on the way, visited the house in the wake of a mass shooting early Tuesday in which a man and five children were killed.
“It hit home, man,” Goforth said. “It’s the kids. We were just honest with them. You just have to tell the truth.