This is really sad.

W.Va. Police Probe Teens' Shooting Deaths

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Police brought several people in for questioning and searched for clues Monday in the shooting deaths of four teenagers on the morning after the prom.

The teenagers were killed early Sunday in the front yard of the apartment house where one of the victims lived. Police believe that man, Dante Ward, may have been the intended target and the other three were killed to prevent them from identifying the shooter, police Capt. Steve Hall said.

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A neighbor said he and his daughter were awakened by gunshots and a girl pleading for her life.

"There was a burst of gunfire, and then there was a small pause, and that's when I heard the girl say, `Please don't kill me, I'm sorry,'" Michael Thomas said. "And I heard two more gunshots."

Thomas added: "You send your kids to the prom and you just hope they don't drink and drive. You'd never expect they're going to get murdered in cold blood."

Dillon's father, Garry Dillon, said he had no idea why his son and Poston were at Ward's house. "I just hope the police get the monster that did this to those babies," he said.

On my local news, they talked to a counselor at one of the schools attended by one of the kids. He said something about just being there, encouraging the students to talk, and that kind of thing. It was in stark contrast to the response by my terrible school counselor when a friend of mine died when we were in the eighth grade. I remember standing in the hallway with some friends, and we were all talking and crying, and our counselor came by and said, "If you girls can't pull yourselves together, you need to go home." And then she went on down the hall. Pathetic, I thought.

Anyway, the families of those kids that were killed over the weekend, and their friends, are in my prayers.