The Italian daily, La Repubblica, has put on its website photos of the young Omaha killer, taken by the store's surveillance cameras, as well as facsimiles of the notes he left behind. Scroll to "Nebraska: La fotosequenza." One can only pray for all caught up in this terrible tragedy that transformed an ordinary day into sheer horror.

Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, is a longtime Commonweal contributor.

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