So Senseless, So Sad

Our small community had a tragic thing happen last night.
Around 7:30 p.m. a man, upset with his girlfriend, biked down an old train trestle, now made in to a beautiful walkway over the lake connecting two small towns, opened fire, and shot at close range, a 31 year old man, a 33 year old man, his 31 year old wife, and their 11 year old daughter. He then shot and killed himself. He picked out random people to shoot. All but the young wife are dead. She is in critical condition at the hospital. After she got shot, she had the sense to grab her other two small children and run them to safety and told them to get help. So sad, so senseless.
About 75 to 100 people were on the trestle trail, which is called "Friendship Trail" so this could have been much much worse than it already is.
Praying that this young woman fully recovers from her gunshot wounds, and she and her two small children can, by the grace of God, move forward with life, without a husband and daughter, dad, and sister. Praying also for the other young man's family, that they can move forward with their lives after losing a loved one. I knew them from church. Not well, but I know who they are. And, too, prayers are needed for the shooters family. No doubt they are hurting too.
The wife who survived the gunshot wounds said her husbands last words to the guy who shot him were, "I forgive you".
I think that's one of the highest ways of being Christlike that you could ever be. Forgive as Christ forgave you. Colossians  3:13

The beginning of one end of the Friendship Trail.

The shooting took place at this pavilion. 

So senseless, so sad.