I meant to do my work that day..

..but the news took my attention. I reached out to my supervisor and asked to step away from my desk and the incoming phone calls. That day was August 27, 2025. The six degrees of separation was about a three.

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Diocese of Scranton in Minnesota reactions right after the shooting on August 27, 2025. Read the article and compare notes.

At least 2 children dead, 17 injured, in Minneapolis Catholic school shooting – Diocese of Scranton https://share.google/PEmPpY8s13DhsQtNP 

News links:

https://youtu.be/fsAoPxuffwc?is=0-s9YDqjzuc7Igp9

A doctor relying on prayer.  A #strong of which I am not a personal fan, but it works for some.

https://youtu.be/J9gKdnfsx_Y?is=JeC1u29b3r9oADlx

Caution with link below, it has a video diary of the shooter but is a short video.

https://youtu.be/x7c8oyLHYcs?is=O-qLg4ZZTpef9KQF

Other states react:

https://youtu.be/8hoM61rWwPM?is=xySvxIc_19H8Wjec

Information: One year later. Not much is known about the shooter?

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Annunciation Catholic school shooting: Documents detail swift response | CNN https://share.google/T5rhnW62TkFZXuXMa

Follow up on one of the dead victim's parents: They reflect and share video of his frozen in time bedroom.

https://youtu.be/ub0qYwvosMw?is=7b90PbpbajlJhg5p

Romancing violence helps in a very limited way.  Fletcher will be forgotten over time by most of us, unless we take seriously what is stated at the end of the last video.

I will never forget Shannon Wright. I wrote because of her in 1998. I will never stop writing. Remember, it is not the weapon of choice we are battling. 

As a Catholic who lives in a city where a synagogue was the scene of a massacre, I know with one degree of separation how evil strikes out during religious services. Many faith communities know it first hand.

The children were in prayer as a person says in the first video. Evil hates children. Jesus warned the women from the Cross. Mary wept. 

Mary reached out to the children at Fatima to deliver messages, per Catholic faith. Some did not take kindly to the children, even those in their own homes. We remember them today, over one hundred years later.

Maybe we can listen to the voice of Fletcher through his room and remember him. He had a journal too.  

What is in your child's journal? Who is speaking to your children?

In 1998, I stepped away from my classroom, but not the proverbial desk.

What makes you step away from your work?

Marian R. Carlino

September 18, 2026

The Anger Stage of Grief

A campus shooting, no matter how you feel about the victim, even if this death was due to the grand theory out there, questions on campus security need to be asked. If the theories on the grand scale hold any water, then ask, ask, ask. If there are holes, ask anyway.

After a period of mourning, which is always difficult when the death of a loved one is surrounded by controvesy, the head starts to clear as the heart heals.

In a civil society, lawsuits, not vengeance, are filed to seek answers. I am not sure why it took a year, but finally, questions are being asked, in legal formality, by TPUSA, about the shooting on the campus of UVU.

I was posting in podcasters' chats about the university's culpability last year. If you have the slightest knowledge on prevention when a lightening rod comes to town and complete failure to protect happens, you would ask to.

You do understand the university's job was also to protect their students, staff and the university's integrity?

I will post several links, some are news, some are podcasters. I hope this goes to a televised civil trial with no confidentiality agreements. 

Now that the alledged shooter is heading to trial, more information will come out. The victim held celebrity status but the shooting was on a public university campus.

The reports state former University President resigned. Why was she dancing?

https://www.youtube.com/live/2R7QxjtNBhE?is=SnkqlzYRhvQFBKYx

Devoting more time to her family?

https://youtu.be/d5fleLTP52U?is=beYAekZ72Q9cx3va

News and podcaster links on lawsuit.

https://youtu.be/FKeioKSjUag?is=MtvYCYAFuC9lzqty

https://youtu.be/uWbrfCWgZXA?is=thFZS3wxzANRs_fX 

https://youtu.be/fDJw6TYPSRE?is=flYLx2FmFANSS8cy

https://youtu.be/SVVVKxlYbis?is=PzhbmL6lK9UNOrht

This story is not going away. Is CK the grain of wheat that had to fall to the ground? Regardless of how you interpret his life, he is more famous in death then when alive. The alledged shooter failed to silence his voice.

The university administration failed in protecting  CK and their campus. I wonder how the donors are feeling now?

FERPA and the Clery Act may be headlining again. How about all the laws on school safety, will we get a refresher course?

Marian R. Carlino

September 17, 2026