The night before Adriana Vance addressed her son’s killer in a Colorado courtroom, she was still searching for the right words. She had spent days struggling to write a statement about her son, Raymond Green Vance, 22, one of the five people killed last November in a shooting rampage at Club Q in Colorado Springs. Image Raymond Green Vance, 22, had just gotten a new job and was saving for his own apartment when he was killed in a mass shooting. Courtesy of the family of Raymond Green VanceBecause most mass shooters do not live to see a trial, there is often no such moment after their attacks. Should those minutes be spent focusing on lost loved ones, or condemning the killer, or even offering forgiveness, as families did after a racist massacre inside a Charleston church?

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Persons: Adriana Vance, Raymond Green Vance, dangled, Raymond’s, Vance, “, ” Organizations: Q Locations: Colorado, Colorado Springs, American, Parkland, Fla, Pittsburgh, Charleston