Great Falls Tribune: Shelby teen dies in accidental shooting

I was awake with a migraine when the phone started ringing at 2:30 a.m. with calls about getting grief counselors set up to go to the high school this morning. Jon got about 4 hours of sleep and was out the door at 7:00 to be at the high school when students started arriving at 7:30. If I wasn’t scheduled to work today and if I hadn’t been flattened with a migraine, I likely would have been at the high school as well.

Graduation is this weekend and what should be a fun weekend for everyone is now going to be a somber occasion for most.

His mother was the nurse who admitted me to the Shelby hospital on April 6th and went down to Great Falls with me in the ambulance hours later. She prayed with me and held my hand and talked gently to me to keep me calm. Two days later, she came bursting into the NICU to see how Daniel and I were doing. I can’t express how awful I feel for her losing her son, especially as she was instrumental in mine making it into the world alive as well as me surviving his birth.

I am just incredibly sad at the moment.