“Pretty much, everything went crazy. I was in disbelief. Stunned, actually.”
Cullie Brumett
“We're just in shock and disbelief. This is a heavy (situation) ... It's stunning. (The allegations) came out of the blue.”
James Murphy
“That initial thing was disbelief and then anger, extreme anger. I mean I actually got angry with God. That's the ultimate anger. But we've since been able to reconcile ourselves to the fact that we didn't cause the situation and we can't correct the situation. So, we're just trusting God to help us survive as well as help the victims' families survive this.”
Claritha Nichols
“Our feeling, in talking with people at the school, was disbelief that she would actually be involved in something like this.”
William Kiefer
“I felt a little disbelief that we were actually done and that this was it. You spend three years working your tail off and you reach that final goal — I can't even explain how good it felt.”
Mitch Mustain
“The word we felt was disbelief that something like this actually happened. We couldn't believe that it happened.”
John Cook
“It's stunning, shocking — use whatever word you want. We're in disbelief. When you know somebody well, and you don't have any idea of something like that happening, it's a whole range of emotions.”
Upinder Dhillon