I was watching the Today Show this morning and they were interviewing these two girls who are best friends and were involved in the shooting at the theater in Colorado last week. I've seen them over the course of the past couple of days but never really paid attention to their story until today.
Allie (the girl in the glasses) was shot in the neck and told her friend Stephanie to save herself and leave the theater. Stephanie stayed by her friend's side and applied pressure to the wound until the shooting stopped and then got her out of the theater and to an ambulance. It was really touching to see these young girls who had such a strong friendship that they were willing to risk their lives for one another.
But the really amazing thing was what Allie said about the shooter. She actually felt sorry for him that he was in such a bad place in his life that he was able to commit such a heinous act. She said that maybe if he had a best friend like the one she had, he wouldn't have been such a loner and quite possibly...things may have gone a different way for him.
