AP: OFFICER WHO CARRIED DYING GIRL COMFORTS GRIEVING FATHER

[Omaha Steve]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_COLORADO_SHOOTING_A_FATHERS_STORY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-01-22-16-41-34

BY SADIE GURMAN

EVERGREEN, Colo. (AP) -- Every year on his daughter's birthday, Ian Sullivan visits the grave of the child he lost when a gunman slipped into a Colorado movie theater and fatally shot the 6-year-old as she sat with her mother in the fourth row.

And every year, he finds a birthday card on the headstone from the man who was with Veronica when Sullivan couldn't be: the police officer who carried the dying girl out of the theater in his arms.


In this Jan. 13, 2015 photo, Ian Sullivan closes the hood of his custom racing Subaru, at home in Evergreen, Colo. Sullivan's has struggled daily to cope emotionally ever since 2012, when a heavily armed gunman opened fire in a movie theater where his six year old daughter Veronica and Sullivan's x-wife were watching a movie, leaving 12 dead, including his daughter Veronica. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)


Since the 2012 attack, survivors and their loved ones have each sought comfort in their own ways. One wounded couple got married. A father whose son was killed became a gun-control advocate. Others turned to faith.

The 28-year-old Sullivan withdrew, cutting ties to many of those who had been closest to him and retreating to a home in the mountains. But he found a lifeline in the police officer he only knows by his first name, Mike.

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[cwydro]

1. Moving story.

I hope they throw away the key for that lunatic.

[AtomicKitten]

2. The depth of sorrow is immeasurable.

The senseless deaths - especially of our little ones - due to senseless gun violence is incomprehensible. Good lord when will the insanity stop?