A Mother Records Her Daughter's Grief

The mother of a Virginia Tech freshman who lost two high school friends in Monday's masssacre wrote down her thoughts in the initial days following the shootings. Shari Sachs is the mother of Nicole Bonfiglio, who graduated last year from Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., with her friends, Reema Samaha and Erin Peterson. The killer, Cho Seung- Hui, also graduated from Westfield, in 2003. Sachs went to Blacksburg to pick up her daughter on Tuesday, April 17. The two returned to their Northern Virginia home the same day. The diary excerpts are transcribed as written.

The excerpts are available here.